Chapter 1254: A Live Military Drill
Trantor: WQL Editor: Aleem
Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory neighbored Gaoping Prefecture in Yanzhou Province. It only took Commander Cheng’s airboat 3 hours to arrive at Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory from Ninghe Prefecture in Yanzhou Province.
Even though nobody reminded him, Commander Cheng had already known when the airboat entered the air territory of Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory.
A team of 9 silver airnes flew over from below the airboat of Commander Cheng in a tidy herringbone formation over 2,000 m high with the booms of engines.
Compared to the airboat, airnes were much smaller and slower. However, at the first sight of those airnes, Commander Cheng was indeed attracted by them.
Soon after Commander Cheng entered the air territory of Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, he had relieved his slight frown.
“Are these airnes being driven by Fiery Oil?” Commander Cheng asked Gao Tianqi while gazing at those airnes flying across the clouds below with shiny eyes.
“Yes, they’re airnes!” Gao Tianqi also seriously watched that team of airnes below the airboat. Although Gao Tianqi was Commander Cheng’s chief guard nominally, he was always trained as a provincial governor. Therefore, Gao Tianqi also served as Commander Cheng’s secretary. He also paid attention to the military and political affairs in the northeast military region. Of course, Gao Tianqi had channels to acquire the messages about Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory inte months. He replied, “These airnes are Air Cavalry Type-I. Over the past 2 months, all the cities in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory were building and renovating the universal airports for airships, airboats and airnes. Additionally, they established an air cavalry academy outside Xuantian City, which drove the youngsters in Youzhou Province mad. Youngsters from other military regions and prefectures also went to learn how to drive airnes over there...”
In this age, besides knights, nobody else could fly; therefore, it was very attractive for these youngsters to fly in the sky by driving a set of machine.
“Air cavalry academy? Where do their coachese from?”
“It’s said that coaches were recruited from the crew of airships who could drive gliders. Nice treatment. The manipting and flight principles of airnes are not too muchplex than that of driving gliders. They could attempt to drive an airne only after being familiar with that. Aww, the teaching material of Iron-Dragon Air Cavalry Academy is called “Pilot Driving Manual”. It’s said that it waspiled by Qianji Hermit himself!”
After hearing that, Commander Cheng became really surprised, “Zhang Tiepiled that?”
“Commander, don’t forget that Qianji Hermit was known as Selnes Eagle before promoting to a knight anding to Taixia Country when he was in the fiercest battlefield between humans and demons in Waii Subcontinent. It’s said that Qianji Hermit was the only air cavalry on the battlefield. He could drive the only artificial man-powered airne on that battlefield. At that time, Qianji Hermit protected the entire airship troop in the sky alone and was regarded as the patron of many crews of airships in the sky!”
When Zhang Tie was a ck iron knight, Gao Tianqi might still be jealous of Zhang Tie. However, due to the increasingly greater difference between them, Gao Tianqi only admired him.
“Let’s take a look downside there...” Commander Cheng became interested in the airnes.
In this case, Gao Tianqi could only notice the crew of the airboat before following Commander Cheng off the airboat.
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When the 9 airnes were flying below the airboat, Cheng Honglie and Gao Tianqi suddenly appeared to one side of the first airne. Being a few meters away from that airne, they started to observe that airne seriously. Meanwhile, they started to assess the performance and value of this airne.
Thankfully, it was not the first time for the pilot to meet knights in the sky. Although the appearance of Cheng Honglie and Gao Tianqi shocked him a bit, he recovered hisposure soon.
The pilot made a hand gesture to tell the other pilots to fly as scheduled.
The pilot of the first airne was the team leader of this formation.
Behind the cockpit of the first airne, the crew member who was responsible for manipting a crossbow was only over 20 years old. He was watching Cheng Honglie and Gao Tianqi with widely opened eyes who were a few meters away.
Common fighters could barely see two flying knights in such a short distance.
When he found that this flight formation was not in a panic after seeing the two knights, Commander Cheng nodded inside.
Compared to the prototype that Zhang Tie once tried, the Air cavalry type-I was slightly modified in the cover of the cockpit, the chair in the cockpit, the rearview mirror, breathing system and the type of the steam crossbow behind the shooting cabin ording to the opinions of the pilots and the bowmen afterrge-scale training over the past 2 months. After making these modifications, the 9 Type-I air cavalries were finally produced as the fixed type for mass production.
Just now, Commander Cheng and Gao Tianqi didn’t see the item below the abdomen of these airnes due to visual angle. When they approached, they saw an item which was simr to that of white phosphorous gel incendiary bomb under each airne.
The airnes flew rapidly. Like that in Ninghe Prefecture, thend in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory was also golden all over. It was the season for summer harvest in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory.
Ninghe Prefecture’s summer harvest turned into a big fire on the fertilend. By contrast, the summer harvest in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory was ongoing fervently. When the prices of grains were rising across Taixia Country, the bumper harvest in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory made all the major ns andmoners in farming viges across Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory happy and spirited as if they were in a Shangri.
Farmers were busy reaping ears of wheat in farnds. When they saw airnes flying over, those people would raise their heads and wipe off their sweat as they waved their hands and cheered towards those airnes.
In the half past month, Commander Cheng had inspected all the main grain producing areas across the entire northeast miliary region except for Youzhou Province. Wherever he was, he would always see miserable scenes. This summer grains failure was absolutely arge-scale catastrophe. Facing such a miserable situation, both officials andmoners were frightened, sad and restless. Therefore, the moment Commander Cheng saw the vigorous and hopeful scene in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, Commander Cheng felt pretty good immediately.
Although with two uninvited guests on their side, the formation of airnes still stuck to their flight route as they were not affected by it at all.
After over 1 hour’s flight, the 9 airnes finally entered the air territory of Yangui Mountain Range after passing by Wugong City and Dongyang City. After flying another half an hour over Yangui Mountain Range, they saw a valley being covered with mud, rocks and few shrubs and weeds within 100 miles under the formation of airnes.
In the sky, they could see a huge, round area being drawn by lime whose diameter was hundreds of meters. Many people in military uniforms were waiting for something a few miles away from the other side of the round area.
When the 9 airnes entered the air territory of this valley, all the airnes suddenly tilted their wings as the entire formation divided into two groups. Closely after that, they dove down from thousands of meters high at high speed, causing wuthering sounds.
When the two groups of airnes were hundreds of meters high above the round area, they suddenly dropped off the item which looked like white phosphorous gel incendiary bomb which flew towards that round area. When those bombs were dozens of meters away from the ground, all the bombs burned while giving out raging mes. In a split second, hot waves rushed into the sky. As a result, the greater part of the round area was covered by the hot mes. Thend, weeds, shrubs even rocks in the white round area were burning heavily. Weeds and shrubs were burned into ashes; rocks were copsed; mud was hardened. In the center of the white circle, the air turned thin due to surrounding mes...
When those airnes started to dive down, Cheng Honglie and Gao Tianqi suspended in the sky. Actually, at the sight of the huge white circle on the valley, they had realized what these airnes were doing.
It seemed like a live military drill. The achievement of this drill was really out of the imagination of the two people. The 9 incendiary bombs turned the round area into a purgatory in a split second. Even being thousands of meters high, Cheng Honglie and Gao Tianqi could still sense the hot wave.
Ordinary white phosphorous gel incendiary bombs could never be that powerful. That was not a white phosphorous gel incendiary bomb, but a more powerful and destructive incendiary bomb which had never existed in Taixia Country before...