Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

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.

And all the people on the bridge also made the same move as him. 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 everyone's gaze, he completed the translation and decoding at the fastest speed in his life, and then shouted to everyone: "Langdon is calling! The sky is burning, and the earth is crawling under my feet! Drop thermobaric bombs!"

"Deploy the thermobaric bomb!" William immediately hugged the microphone closest to him and shouted to the weapons officer in the bomb bay.

"Received the order! Drop the thermobaric bomb!" The weapons officer's excited and deformed voice came from the bomb bay. Then everyone felt a vibration from the airship, and then they heard the 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 release the second bomb!"

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 quickly control the hovering state. The airship disembarked and headed to the second bombing site.

In front of the steam engine in the middle of the airship, the boiler that had already completed the heat engine was continuously producing steam, but the boilermaker was holding the handle of the valve tightly and did not allow the steam to be transported to the engine to push the airship forward.

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 emitted a weird scream, waking up ordinary citizens who were not sleeping soundly in the city below, as well as those upper-class people who were still having fun at this time.

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, trying to find solid objects around them to use as shelters. , because they understood that the sound was the sound of cannonballs tearing 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 was a small fan blade that was rotating rapidly due to 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 the huge black shadow exploded some distance away from the ground.

This didn't cause any damage, it just blew up 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, and no one realizes that danger has arrived 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 had originally covered the airship were blown away, forming a huge circular hole in the sky.

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 flames that swept through directly burned her skin and respiratory tract, and her entire lungs were burned, and then The whole person was ignited 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 ​​​​fire.

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 entire 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 tried 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. 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.

Just like a huge vacuum cleaner, it quickly drained the air in the core city area that had not been bombed in the middle of the sea of ​​​​fire, and formed an environment similar to a vacuum and negative pressure. While making people feel suffocating, it also sucked out the surrounding sea of ​​​​fire. attracted by the fierce flames.

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 the French 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, and 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!"

　The thermobaric bomb in reality is not so terrifying, but it is not far behind. This thing is known as a sub-nuclear weapon second only to nuclear bombs. It is not too easy to destroy the cities of the 18th century.

　　In addition, Paris at the end of the 19th century covered an area of ​​8000 hectares and had a population of nearly 190 million, which was not very large. The use of thermobaric bombs could indeed cause considerable damage and casualties.

　　

　

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