Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 958 959 New Air Combat

"Woo...Woo...Woo..." Continuous sirens echoed over the border cities of Shu. The people of Shu raised their heads and looked at the sky, and saw a fleet of slender planes flying over their heads. .

It’s not that the air defense sirens sounded too late, but that the civilians in Shu really didn’t know what to do when the air defense sirens sounded.

 In fact, among modern people who lack wartime training, not many people know what they should do during an air defense siren?

 Escape? Come on, except for places like the subway, there are really not many young people who know the nearest civil defense fortification around them.

 Although many underground garages and subways in modern cities have been converted from air defense facilities, they have eventually lost many of their original functions and cannot actually serve as adequate shelters. The Shu Kingdom in this world doesn't even have any decent underground garages or subway stations, let alone air defense facilities.

 Due to the technological influence of the Tang Empire, the speed of urban construction in almost all countries in the world is actually reversed, and they do not develop according to conventional development ideas.

 Things such as air raid shelter facilities, sewerage, water supply and drainage systems, and electricity are all post-development.

 In other words, everyone builds houses, factories, and railways first. Develop industry first, and then conditions such as housing will follow.

 When the population increases, when factories develop, when there are railways, airports, and high-rise buildings, then we will study the so-called sewers, then think of ways to build larger power plants, and then think about the lack of supporting facilities.

Take Fengjiang City in the Dahua Empire as an example. Except for the core part of the city that was built by the Tang Empire Engineering Team, which has complete supporting facilities, the surrounding systems are actually incomplete.

  Sewers need to be repaired every year, and the electrical system also needs to be replaced every year. Do you expect to find air-raid shelters in such a city? What a joke.

What's more, the world itself does not have any decent air defense concepts. The people have only been afraid of the air force for seven or eight years at most. What good habits can they have?

 So, when the air raid siren sounded, the people in Shu didn't know what they were going to do. Some smart and wealthy people drove to the suburbs, while others returned home to be with their families.

 No one knew what happened, so more people were still standing in the streets and alleys, staring at the enemy planes in the sky in a daze.

Above the sky, the Qin pilots on the bombing mission looked through the special, greenhouse-like nose glass window at the densely packed buildings below them, and they were also very nervous.

 This was their first bombing mission to bomb a city, and it was also their first time preparing to drop bombs into such a seemingly huge city.

“Open the bomb bay!” the bombardier shouted in the noisy plane when he saw the roofs of the houses in the city through the original sight produced by the Tang Empire.

With his shouts and the humming sound of the engine, the belly bomb bay of the DO-17 bomber slowly opened, and the bombs hanging upside down in the bomb bay saw the sunlight.

"I have taken aim! Start dropping the bomb!" The bombardier aimed the bombsight at the city below and announced loudly.

Almost at the same time, he exerted force on his finger pressing the bomb launcher. A bomb detached from its pylon and fell in the sky, followed by a second bomb of the same type, and then a third bomb.

 The fuselage of the bomber was shaking slightly, and as the air flow trembled a little bit, one after another 50-kilogram bombs broke away from the restraints of the plane and fell towards the ground beneath their feet.

This bombing method was also trained by the Qin State after learning from the carpet bombing of the Tang Empire. Although their number of aircraft was far less than that of the Tang Empire, they did learn something similar.

 Another bomber following this bomber was also dropping bombs, and the bomber further behind was still dropping bombs.

This is the charm of carpet bombing, and it also explains the power of carpet bombing: 40 DO-17 bombers dropped bombs together, and the destructive power was indeed quite astonishing.

It is true that the DO-17 bomber sold to Qin by the Tang Empire only carried a pitiful 1 ton of bombs, which was pitifully less than other bombers, but this bomb load has improved a lot compared to the previous biplane bombers. .

 40 DO-17 bombers can carry 40 tons of bombs. When these bombs fell on the city, they immediately caused a **** storm.

 The first bomb hit the roof of the house directly, creating a huge hole in the roof. The delayed fuse, which was born in the Tang Empire, ensured that the bomb would not explode immediately after penetrating the roof, but would have to wait for a while.

This is done to ensure that the bomb can explode inside the building and exert maximum power when it explodes.

A few seconds later, the bomb that fell into the house exploded suddenly. The huge shock wave destroyed the walls around the building and also lifted off the roof of the house.

The second bomb exploded shortly after, sending up a cloud of black smoke directly on the street. The civilians of Shu who were watching the excitement were suddenly overturned by the shock wave. The people who were shot around were howling like ghosts and wolves, and the people who were standing around suddenly became like birds and beasts and dispersed. The third bomb exploded not far away, followed by the fourth and fifth. Seeing these bombs extending to another neighborhood, the people of Shu finally realized that a war seemed to have really broken out.

"Help! They're dead!" A woman finally couldn't help but screamed as she looked at the corpses lying scattered beside the crater not far away.

Frankly speaking, as a medium-range bomber that can only carry one bomb and has weak self-protection capabilities, the performance of the DO-17 bomber is actually not very good.

 The bombs it dropped were small, and if they were large enough, they could carry only a small number, which severely limited its combat effectiveness.

However, when the people of Shu experienced modern bombing for the first time, they were indeed frightened.

They saw enemies from the sky for the first time, and for the first time they desperately discovered that the city they were in was so vulnerable to attack.

 Originally, they thought that their city was more than 200 kilometers away from the border and was an absolutely safe place. Even if a war breaks out, they will still have time to flee to the interior.

Unfortunately, reality has slapped them in the face: even if they are more than 200 kilometers away from the border, enemy planes can still launch bombings on the same day and turn the city into ruins.

“Come here! Put out the fire!” Not far away, as the bomb exploded and the walls collapsed and the wooden houses burned, someone shouted in fear.

 Because there are many wooden buildings, fire has always been the disaster that civilians in Shu fear most. Because once a fire breaks out, it is likely to spread to the entire neighborhood, causing huge losses to people.

In the sky, the Shu Kingdom purchased technology from the Tang Empire and assembled and produced the C200 fighter jet, which is called the 200 type fighter jet in the Shu Kingdom. It is circling.

 Its main performance is about the same as that of the Hurricane fighter. It is indeed worse than the Butcher, but there is no huge generation difference.

Shu pilots flying more than a dozen such planes have rushed to the battlefield. They saw that their country's city was being attacked, and a thick black smoke had risen from inside the city.

“Lean over! Lean over! Cut from the edge! Bite the opponent!” A Shu Air Force commander led by him issued an order through the intercom.

With a roar of engines, these Shu fighter jets began to cut into the battlefield. One fighter jet instantly bit into a slender flying pencil that had just completed its bombing mission.

“Thud, tug, tug, tug!” The Type 200 fighter jet is only equipped with two 12.7 mm caliber aviation machine guns. Its firepower is relatively weak, and it is actually quite difficult to attack bombers.

However, the defensive performance of the DO-17 bomber itself is very rubbish, and its thin skin and large stuffing are very fragile, so the two sides are equally matched on another level.

The Shu pilot bit the Qin bomber and opened fire at a very close distance against the tracer bullets fired by the defensive machine gun on the opponent's plane, sweeping out a row of bullets.

"Go to hell!" In the small cockpit, the Shu pilot uttered a curse through his teeth. Along with his curse, the tracer bullets he fired punched a row of holes in the opponent's fuselage.

A bullet hit the engine of the Flying Pencil DO-17 bomber, and then thick smoke overflowed from the engine hatch. The height of the hit Flying Pencil began to drop uncontrollably.

At this time, the other two Type 200 fighter jets also found their attack targets. They chased the flying pencil one after another, firing rows of tracer bullets until the flying pencil was emitting thick smoke. until it starts to fall.

 Two bombers were shot down in the blink of an eye, and Qin's air force **** fighter force became anxious. They got involved in the battlefield and began to fight with the enemy planes from Shu.

For a moment, the engines roared in the sky above the battlefield, and as they watched the battle between their own country's planes and the enemy's planes on the ground, the people of Shu finally couldn't restrain their emotions and raised their arms and cheered loudly.

"Enemy plane! Enemy plane!" In the airspace of the melee, the commander of the Shu Kingdom reminded his comrades: "Be careful of the enemy's **** fighter jets!" while avoiding the Qin fighter jets that were chasing him!

"Sir, hold on! Hold on! I've got him! Circle! Circle!" In the earphones, the friendly voice sounded urgent and nervous.

"Pay attention to the altitude! Pay attention to the altitude! Be careful about fuel consumption! Don't be obsessed with fighting!" On the other side, Qin's fighter pilots were also nervously controlling their planes. In the headphones, there were equally busy and excited shouts.

 (End of this chapter)