Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 780 779 Plan Cancellation
"Final check! Wings and landing gear! Be careful! Get ready for takeoff!" In the evening, in a forest covered with camouflage nets, a huge biplane bomber was making its final takeoff Prepare.

There are more than a dozen bombs mounted under the belly of this plane, which is its maximum bomb loading state.The plane was full of fuel, and the two machine gunners were putting on their uniforms, with thick scarves wrapped around their necks.

The bombers of the Tang Army have been doing their best to destroy the Dahua Air Force Airport in the direction of Jiange. In order to avoid the attack of the Datang bombers, elaborate camouflage has been carried out here.

The airport runway is disguised as farmland, and it is usually covered with branches and other messy debris, so as to ensure that it cannot be found in the sky every day.

At the same time, four anti-aircraft gun positions are hidden in the woodland on the side of the airport to ensure the safety of the airport when enemy planes attack.

There were only three bombers parked at the entire airport, and they were all placed in hidden places in the woods, covered with camouflage nets.

Because of its small size and careful camouflage, this airport has never been discovered by the Tang army. It can be regarded as a secret base of the Dahua army, or a killer weapon that threatens the southern oil fields.

"Remember, you must keep the course! Deviation will make it impossible for you to find the attack target!" An officer stuffed a planetarium into the hands of the machine gunner in the back row, and warned very solemnly.

For night bombing, there is no radio guidance or ground guidance. It is very difficult to keep the course and find the attack target.

So, several people on the plane have to work together, and everyone has a role to play.

Compared with bombing during the day, they don't need to face the dangerous butcher fighter interception, but the danger is not small at all.

They had to go all the way through the starry sky to determine their bearings, combined with the compass, and finally flew over the southern oil field.

In the Tang State-controlled area, they may be attacked by the Tang Army's anti-aircraft guns at any time, and they must be careful of the enemy's searchlights.

In short, they need to be very careful, and finally get close to the target and then complete the task of bombing the oil field - as for whether they can fly back to Jiange, only God knows.

There is no previous record of a bomber returning safely from a night bombing, so for these pilots, performing this mission is almost indistinguishable from suicide.

Even the machine gunners, the machine gunners who perform night bombing missions are completely different from ordinary machine gunners.The machine gunners who bombed at night had to take care of the navigator's work. They had to determine the stars, observe the compass, and even roughly judge their location based on some ground lights.

To put it bluntly, these machine gunners are also valuable talents, and they are also elites with excellent skills who are selected one in a thousand.

What makes people uncomfortable is that these selected elite talents will inevitably be lost in the upcoming bombing missions.

It's really sad that they are destined not to come back.Knowing that they will never come back, they are still willing to climb on the plane here, which is even more sad.

"I know, I learned it when I was in school! If I can fly so far over the sea, I will definitely be able to fly back with everyone!" The young machine gunner replied with a smile.

"Check the instruments! There is no problem!" A ground crew confirmed again and again after helping the pilot climb onto the plane.

The pilot nodded, and once again checked the status of the instruments in the cockpit under the illumination of the oil lamp.

"I wish you success!" The commander of the unit to which the plane belongs stood beside the wing of the plane, saying goodbye with tears in his eyes.

"Thank you! We will succeed!" The co-pilot stood at attention and saluted, and then prepared to climb onto his plane under the escort of the ground crew.

Everything is ready, and soon they will rush to the runway, take off under the moonlight, and fly to the control area of ​​Tang State to carry out the mission of bombing the southern oil field.

Under the moonlight, a car slowly parked in the woodland. An officer opened the door, got out of the car nervously, and rushed towards the brightly lit plane in the distance.

"Stop! Everyone stop!" The officer held on to his hat while running, and when he heard his shout, many people around the plane looked in his direction.

Under everyone's gaze, the officer ran to the side of the plane's wing, gasped for a while, adjusted his breathing, and said, "The prince's order!... The bombing mission is cancelled!"

"Are you kidding? Cancellation?" The officer of the bomber unit frowned, and took a document from the opponent's hand in doubt.

The subordinate handed over the kerosene lamp to help him illuminate the document.I saw that the document stated that because of the peace talks, all night raids on oil fields were temporarily canceled.

"Why cancel it? Didn't it mean that the armistice agreement has not been signed yet?" The commander of the bomber unit asked again.

"Your Majesty personally ordered that no further attacks on the southern oil fields be allowed..." The officer explained: "Cancelled! The mission is cancelled!"

"Yes! I understand!" The air force commander of the Dahua Empire nodded slightly, and then looked towards the plane: "Turn off the engine! Help the pilot and machine gunner down."

The ground crew heard the order, hesitated for a few seconds, and then began to climb onto the plane hurriedly.

They helped the pilot off the plane, and then the commander canceled the bombing mission this time in front of everyone: "Gentlemen! The mission to bomb the oil field has been cancelled, and I am on standby tonight...I need to go back and verify the prince's order." .”

After speaking, he nodded slightly to the soldiers, and walked towards his own car under the dim light.

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"Did you see the black smoke on the horizon? We may have found the damn fleet!" A captain stood on the enclosure, pointing to the sea in the distance, and shouted to the sailors beside him.

The sailor picked up the binoculars and looked in the direction of the captain's finger. Sure enough, he saw some black smoke that hadn't completely dissipated.

"Yes! Captain! I think we found them!" The sailor put down the binoculars and said excitedly to his captain.

"Go back! Let them speed up! Get your torpedoes ready! Victory belongs to Datang!" The captain ordered loudly, raised his binoculars again, and looked at the distant target.

The waves are still beating against the slender submarine, and the waves hitting the enclosure are still splashing everywhere.The submarine moved forward on the ocean, cutting the rough sea with its sharp bow.

The antenna of the long-wave radio station was pulled obliquely all the way to the front deck. Through this antenna, even without using a telescope, one could see the black smoke permeating the sea level.

Not only did this submarine discover the target, but on the other side, further north, on another submarine of the Tang Army, the sailors were also excitedly pointing at the black smoke in the distance and shouting.

Inside the small submarine, the sailors are already debugging torpedoes, preparing for the upcoming battle.They're going to send all these damned enemy warships to the bottom of the sea, and they've won the war.

"Wake up all the crew! Sound the battle alarm! Let everyone be sober! Drink less water and eat less!" The officers on duty issued one battle order after another. The sailor ran by.

The dense turntables and the ubiquitous instruments declare the complexity of this submarine. The sonar soldier is already in place and is cleaning his beloved earphones.

Everyone is very nervous because the specific situation is not very clear.If the enemy's fleet was on the same course as theirs, frankly speaking, Tang's submarines really couldn't catch up with the fleeing enemy warships.

Even if the submarines of this era are sailing on the water, their speed is only about the same as that of a merchant ship, and it is still much slower than a battleship.

So everyone is looking forward to, hoping that the routes of these enemy fleets are facing them, so that there is a possibility for them to meet.

For submarines, the moment of convergence is the attack window, and pursuit is just a waste of time.

The good news is that since they gradually discovered the black smoke from the enemy fleet, the distance between them and the opponent is getting closer and closer, which means that they have a chance to catch up with each other.

"Sir!" Just when the tension reached a certain level, the communications soldier in charge tore off a piece of telegram and handed it to the captain who had just returned to the submarine: "An urgent telegram from General Bernard."

"Huh?" The captain froze for a moment, then took the telegram: "Cancel the attack order to attack the enemy fleet..."

"Did you make a mistake?" After drifting at sea for more than ten days and enduring the ravages of the cold, he finally found the enemy's fleet and the attack was canceled?Tang Guo's submarine captain said that he could not understand such an order at all.

"It must be a mistake..." The first mate took the order, thinking that there must be a mistake in the content of the message.He glanced at the captain, and also saw unwillingness in his eyes.So he thought for two seconds, and then gave his opinion: "How about...pretending that you didn't receive this telegram...continue to attack?"

"Are you sleeping stupidly? What did you do in the past?" The captain directly rejected his suggestion, saying that he would go to a court-martial if he ordered the foreign ruler to accept such a thing.

However, the captain obviously did not intend to give up like this: "However, it is also possible that the order was wrong! Keep the course! Let's catch up! What if there are new orders."

"Yes!" The chief officer stood at attention excitedly and saluted, and then immediately issued a message that the submarine would continue to maintain its course.

On the surface of the sea, a submarine was ordered to turn around and drew a large U-shaped white track on the surface of the sea.The other submarine maintained its course and continued to rush toward the black smoke on the horizon at full speed.

(End of this chapter)