Chapter 407 Disappearing Vladivostok

He opened his eyes and raised the telescope. Through the narrow observation window, Kilikov felt as if he had found a paradise.

In the rippling bay, fish jump from the blue sea from time to time through the quiet bay. The beautiful mountains in the distance are full of flowers, red, yellow, purple and white, like a touching carpet extending outward.

It is surrounded by countless small European-style fortresses made of granite. A wisp of cooking smoke curls up and mixes with the water mist of the sea, giving people a picturesque artistic conception.

As a member of the most elite Caucasian warrior group in the empire, he only came here by train with 5,000 partners a month ago. It was the first time for soldiers like them who had lived in the inland for a long time to see the sea.

Before that, he couldn't imagine the magnificence of the sea at all, but!

When his eyes came to the charred black on the outer wall of a building, he felt as uncomfortable as if he had swallowed a bedbug while eating. This beautiful Far East harbor is now shuddering in the gunfire!

Fortunately, the army can't drag more than ten-inch heavy artillery. For more than ten days, except for a small part of the six-inch cannon of the [***] team, it can't threaten these thick rocks at all. What's more, their fleet is still blocked outside, so everyone believes that it will never happen again in a few years.

The only thing that worries people is the ammunition. Since the large explosion of the ammunition warehouse more than a month ago, the supply of ammunition has suddenly become difficult. Fortunately, there was no centralized storage at that time. There were finally some reserves in the fortress, and there were enough good materials, so as long as the status quo can be maintained, even one or two You can stick to it all year.

It's just.

Kilikov looked at the northeast, and a trace of throbbing suddenly rose in his heart. This feeling was extremely uncomfortable, as if he was trapped in the water and unable to breathe. He didn't understand where this feeling came from, and quickly climbed the lookout on the roof of the narrow aisle along the narrow aisle.

After boarding the observation post, his vision suddenly opened up, and no one could be seen outside the horizon in the northeast, which made him greatly relieved. When there were figures around him, the soldiers began to get up in twos and threes, and the feeling slowly dissipated.

But soon he found a strange place, because no matter which direction he turned the telescope, he did not find any trace of the Chinese. Only then did he think of these guys everywhere like cockroaches. It seemed that he got the news that they had left Vladivostok long before the arrival of the team.

Did they get any news?

Suddenly, the feeling in his heart rose again, but he didn't know that compared with the quiet Vladivostok fortress in front of him in the early morning, the northeast horizon was already busy.

Forty huge hippo-class airships occupy the whole open space. You can't imagine what it feels like for a guy as big as forty battleships to stop in front of them. When they are one by one, it is not spectacular or excited, but a kind of depression and suffocation!

Yes, because you can't see the distant sky at all. Their bodies block all sight, and their huge bodies will make you feel as small and insignificant as an ant.

Shuttle between these giants, Li Mo was also made hot by the scene in front of him. This will be the largest air bombing in human history, but it appeared in 1903 and was made by himself!

Is there anything more exciting for him than this?

But when he saw the soldiers pushing trolleys and transporting oil barrel-like bombs back and forth between the airships, his heart suddenly jumped.

Because of their own requirements, the big-headed monsters of the Ministry of Science and Technology have created another demon. Although those chemical experts still don't know why Emperor Li solidified the gasoline for a long time, they still made the formula and gave it to the Equipment Support Department.

After the formula of the mixed aluminum soap of naphdecic acid and fatty acid as a thickener was handed over to the military experts of the Equipment and Logistics Support Department, they finally got the monster in combination with white phosphorus incendiary bombs.

Napalm!

As a kind of incendiary bomb, it is actually not more powerful than the white phosphorus incendiary bomb, but the problem is that it is cheap and easy to process!

As a secret mass destruction weapon of the New Chinese Army, the white phosphorus incendiary bomb has been paid more attention to after several uses. The latest generation has added aluminum powder, which makes the power of combustion more powerful. However, the problem is that whether it is the new generation or the old generation, the price and manufacture of incendiary bombs are extremely troublesome.

But the napalm bomb is different, because Li Mo's attention to oil is as crazy as shipbuilding. He began to carry out oil reserves as early as Hawaii. After entering the Northeast, he not only opened a separate oil exploration and exploitation center under the name of the Ministry of Resources, but also set up a synthetic chemical research institute, and also in these During the year, by purchasing equipment, imitating and innovating construction and other means, it has established the world's second largest petrochemical industry, comparable to that of the United States.

and Rockefeller's simple oil refining and asphalt, Li Mo also has a number of vulcanized rubbers. Recently, he has made lubricants for machines and special aviation gasoline and other additives, which has begun to sprout the synthetic chemical industry.

It is precisely because of the emperor's obsession with oil that the extension of the oil field has not only expanded dozens of times, but also the Ministry of Resources has successively found several other oil fields in Urumqi and other places. In addition, the largest source of overseas imports has led to the crazy increase of oil reserves and the price of gasoline all the way.

According to the current price, a 500 kg napalm bomb is one-twentieth of the old white phosphorus incendiary bomb of the same weight and one-fifth of the new one. Even if the new incendiary bomb is more powerful, it is by no means as effective as 25 napalm bombs of the same weight.

As a guest of later generations, everyone in this era knows how powerful this bomb is, or the later United States secretly maintains this bomb system under the international legal covenants.

"Report to the emperor, the Vladivostok attack brigade is ready, and the people and troops within five kilometers of Vladivostok have also been evacuated. Please give instructions." Qin Muhua, the commander of the air force, grinned and interrupted Li Mo's thinking. It was his greatest dream to let the air force decide a war. Today, he finally had the opportunity to realize it!

"Let's go and come back safely."

"Yes, come back safely!"

As Qin Muhua quickly drilled into the No. 101 airship, the signal soldiers waved the green flag vigorously, and a stream of black smoke immediately spewed out of the engine compartment, and the buzzing sound of the engine selection could be heard even a few kilometers away.

Then, a spectacular scene was seen in the whole base. After only two falcons took off, the first airship also quickly unbuckled and slowly rose into the sky with hydrogen in the airbag.

followed by the second, third and fourth.

When the first 20 airships were all launched, it seemed that the sky was covered. The soldiers shouted excitedly, shouted, and waved their arms, as if to let the comrades-in-arms in the sky see them.

When the first batch of airships gradually flew away, the second batch also began to take off slowly. It was another spectacular picture. As a few military photographers kept pressing the shutter, and the photographer couldn't help turning the camera much faster.

When all forty hippos were launched, Li Mo boarded a special airship using helium and slowly followed the troops to Vladivostok.

Thirty kilometers, maybe the infantry will have to walk two small visions. If they bring heavy equipment, it will even take three to four hours, but for the air force flying in the sky, it is almost a bag of smoke.

When two falcons roared over Vladivostok, and sharp whistles sounded everywhere, the whole Vladivostok was in a hurry, because everyone knew very well these days that as long as these monsters that could fly in the sky appeared, they would definitely fall rainstorm-like shells.

Kilikov looked at the roaring plane, thinking about why these things could fly in the sky, holding his head and waiting to read the most difficult few minutes of shelling at first. Unexpectedly, after waiting for a few minutes, he didn't see any shells falling, and couldn't help lifting from behind the thick observation sentry stone wall. The head.

But when he looked up, he was stunned. He didn't even hear the sharp whistles around him, because he saw dozens of huge airships slowly drilling out of the clouds like ancient beasts and flying towards Vladivostok.

He knew that the Chinese had airships, because he had heard that this kind of big guy, which was very popular in Europe, was first made by the Chinese. He had heard that His Majesty was in a hurry to buy airship technology. He even heard that the Chinese people made a lot of money by selling these airships, but he never thought of it. What a lot of pressure it will bring when these big guys gather together and fly from above their heads.

But he doesn't know what will happen to Vladivostok later.

In the ammunition compartment of

101 airship, Xiao Li is carefully adjusting the timed detonator on the bomb. Like performing the suffocation mission, there is also a mass of explosives in the inner center of these "big oil barrels", and then the fuse is connected to the external detonator like a dial through a metal tube. There are two batteries in the detonator. As long as you follow the height of the airship at that time, you can calculate how long it will take to reach the ground through the free fall speed obtained from a large number of experiments before, and then adjust the time when the detonator ignites the fuse according to this. When the scale returns to zero, the two stages of the battery will quickly stagger, and the detonation bomb will blow up and spread around.

As the last detonator was set up, the bomb bay door was quickly opened, and the fierce wind roared into the ammunition compartment, making Xiao Li involuntarily ster two steps. Fortunately, he had already fastened his seat belt, otherwise it would be very dangerous.

Xiao Li quickly put on the windshiel and walked near a row of handlers. Compared with the first-generation airship, the second-generation ammunition compartment is equipped with an automatic bomb dropper. Through the mechanical handle, he can not only quickly throw the bomb down, change the trouble of hand pushing in the past, but also accurately control the drop of each bomb. The speed makes the distribution of ammunition more accurate.

Through the porthole, Xiao Li could see that the first batch of 20 airships began to disperse one after another, shooting into a four columns, each of which was about 500 meters apart, so that the four columns could reach two kilometers wide, enough to cover the Vladivostok fortress once.

When some buildings began to appear on the ground under his feet, Xiao Li immediately held his breath. He knew that he had reached the periphery of Vladivostok, and the bomb-drop order would come at any time.

Suddenly, some light spots appeared on the ground under their feet, which was the result of Russian soldiers shooting into the sky. Unfortunately, they did not have large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns just equipped by the army, otherwise they really did not dare to fly over the sky easily.

Suddenly, the front of the airship suddenly tilted down, and the fortress building in the projectile window became clear. There was also a sudden banging sound on the hatch. This was the signal of the bomb!

As the first army to equip airships and invest in actual combat, the experience of Xinhua Air Force is unrified by any country. Coupled with the hard practice in recent years, some excellent bombers can even drop bombs into the target secret range.

When the first mechanical handle was suddenly pulled down, the first batch of two napalm bombs fell to the ground from the window. Ten seconds later, the second wave, the third wave, the fourth wave, and eight batches, when all sixteen 500 kg napalm bombs were dropped, and there were blooming fire clouds on the ground.

Yes, it's a fire cloud!

Li Mo stood in the observation airship and clearly saw a napalm bomb exploiting about 20 meters above the fortress. Countless colloidal things were ignited by the exploding Mars and flew in all directions, forming a fire cloud of about 250 square meters, completely covering which area.

Twenty airships, each of eight tons and 16 pieces, a total of 160 tons and 320 napalm bombs, which bring damage that people have never seen before can't imagine. These things are similar to white phosphorus. They will attach to anything for a long time, and the rising thick smoke will submerge half of Vladivostok in an eye. Yes.

Standing in the observation post in a high place, Kilkov found that the bombs had actually deviated from him. While secretly calling for luck, he was also stunned by the scene in front of him. He only saw countless exposed comrades-in-arms begin to scream in the sea of fire. Mars ignited from everywhere on them, and the flames seemed to have some kind of magic. Unexpectedly, if it sticks to the stone wall, it won't go out!

No one dares to rush out of the stone bunker bunker to rescue those shouting comrades-in-arms, because everyone finds that as long as someone rushes out of the stone bunker, the flames will immediately devour him. If it is okay to just devour it, if someone brings the flame back to the stone bunker, the whole stone bunker will burn.

Some soldiers on fire began to roll and shake their hands, hoping to get rid of these demons, but such rolling and shaking behavior made the flames continue to spread, and eventually spread more and more.

Kilikov gasped, and the stench stimulated his nose after burning his nose. His eyes were red. The flames detonated some ammunition from time to time. Some wooden buildings turned into a cloud of ashes early, but this was not over, because he found that the second batch of airships had appeared overhead.

Wave after wave, round after round, maybe dozens, or even a few or even one. When they sprinkled fire like hell, the whole Vladivostok could no longer see people. The trees were burning, the barracks were burning, the earth was burning, and the air was even burning.

Explosions sounded from all over Vladivostok, adding a little fear to this burning.

The war is not benevolent, but full of violence. Even if Xue Muhua and all the air force soldiers were stunned by this kind of burning, they still kept throwing down the napalm bomb. Even if it was missing a blackened place, it must be burned again.

Finally, in order to drop a full 1,500 tons of napalm bomb, Xue Muhua even adopted the production method of the workers' assembly line, allowing 40 airships to line up to drop bombs, constantly moving between the base and Vladivostok.

When the bomb keeps falling, the flames become more and more fierce. No matter how strong the wind is, no matter where he hides, he seems to be unable to avoid him. The most crazy thing is that as more and more things are ignited, thick smoke begins to rise from all over the fortress, and a large number of pungent and unpleasant smells begin to cause the soldiers to faint. If It may be better in open places, but when thick smoke accumulates in narrow places, it often takes only a few minutes to be smoked and shock or even die.

Kilikov could no longer breathe, because he found that he was all hot, and his nose was half burning. In panic, he began to look for a way out of trouble. When he saw several destroyers moored in the harbor and began to rush towards the waterway, he seemed to see a glimmer of light, but before he could pursue his comrades-in-arms. At his footsteps, he saw countless drops of water around the first destroyer rushing to the mouth of the waterway. The rumbling gunfire began to come from the sea in the distance. At this time, he remembered that the warships were still outside!

This scene completely cut off everyone's last hope of leaving.

A napalm bomb exploded from the top of his head, as if everything was over. He stared at these flames, as thick as lard, falling on his body with flames. No matter how he slapped and covered them, he could not extinguish these demons. When his clothes were burned out and his body began to burn black, this was located in The screams in the observation post in the center of Vladivostok gradually disappeared.

Wait for 3,000, 1,500 tons of napalm bombs. After 188 consecutive bombs, the sky seemed to burn red. The flames rising above Vladivostok at night can be clearly seen at the base 30 kilometers away. Looking at the firelight, every New Chinese soldier is thinking about a question, where What will be left?

When the airship brigade quietly took off and flew to Jilin a few hours later, Xue Muhua realized that the air force had just completed a series of high-intensity bombings, and for the first time, it asked for its own strength to destroy a large fortress city that was also the first-class in Europe.

After the flames gradually went out the next afternoon, the first Marine Division entered Vladivostok with 5,000 Japanese workers responsible for cleaning up. When they entered, they knew what had happened here after nearly 60 hours of burning.

50,000 soldiers, 13,000 ordinary Russians, and only 1,300 others were directly burned to death, and the rest were all smoked to death by poisonous smoke. Finally, when the data obtained after cleaning up overnight was given to Zhang Shun, the commander of the Marine Corps, he thought about it for half a day before sending a telegram.

There are only five words on the telegram: Vladivostok, disappear!

(to be continued)