Facts once again proved Xiao Letian's bad taste. What rose from the south of Osaka Castle was actually a hot air balloon.
The history of human use of hot-air balloons can be traced back to the 18th century. After more than a hundred years of development, hot-air balloons have begun to be used experimentally in the military field.
During the American Civil War and the Austro-Prussian War, hot air balloons were used as a battlefield reconnaissance method. However, because the impact of hot air balloons on the weather environment was too strict, the army did not use it on a large scale. .
Xiao Letian was the first person to bring a hot air balloon to Asia and display it. At the Forbidden City Great Court Meeting, the secret weapon that shocked the entire Forty-Nine City was the hot air balloon. It was that flight that made Emperor Tongzhi's heart change. Completely wild.
At that time, all the well-informed capital men in the entire Forty-Nine City were dumbfounded. They knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately. They all thought it was a god coming.
At this time, the Japanese people were even more ignorant than the people of the Qing Dynasty. When the huge hot air balloon began to approach Osaka Castle in the air, everyone knelt on the ground and chanted the names of gods and Buddhas in worship. .
"What is this? What kind of spirit is that in the sky? Look, the spirit is smiling at us..."
Yes, there is a bizarre creature on the hot air balloon that is smiling at everyone. It is a blue civet cat with a round head and belly, and even its hands and feet are round.
There was a brass bell hanging around his neck, and there was actually a big pocket on his white belly.
Xiao Letian was laughing so hard that he couldn't stand up straight. This was a joke that only he could understand, because the planet on the hot air balloon was the famous Doraemon in later generations.
It's a bad taste, it's really a bad taste. Today Xiao Letian will make Doraemon a nightmare for the Japanese, and Doraemon will become a god who punishes Japan.
Two intelligence officers on the gondola were looking down at the earth from the sky. One of them was adding coal and shaking the blower, while the other intelligence officer was waving red and yellow flags and sending semaphores to the fleet.
The flagman on the Roma quickly translated "Eleven o'clock due north...the muzzle elevation is 45 degrees...three consecutive shots of intensive bombing..."
As the order was issued, all the artillery on the right side of the Roma began to adjust their angles. High-explosive shells were loaded into the gun barrels. As the pull rope was pulled, the muzzles of the guns rumbled and exploded, and smoke and fire spewed on the sea.
The Tokugawa ministers in the Osaka Castle Castle watched dumbly as the artillery shells whizzed past their heads, drawing a perfect parabola, and exploded directly into the formation of the new Tokugawa army.
"No... what's going on? What's going on? They obviously couldn't see the situation on the battlefield, but why did they explode so accurately." Tokugawa Yingxi stumbled and fell to the ground.
On the plain in the distance, there were twenty huge explosion points. Although only twelve shells fell into the crowd and caused effective damage, the power of the high-explosive bombs was too great. After twelve violent explosions, three The company's formation was completely destroyed.
Xie Duowan and the French Minister on the hillside in the south dropped their telescopes in shock. "What, Xiao Letian actually has such elite artillerymen. Damn it, when did these Asian yellow-skinned monkeys learn trigonometric functions and calculus?" ”
There is nothing wrong with that. When artillery technology developed into the rifled gun era, the flight trajectory of the artillery shells was not parallel, but rotating. This flight method made the trajectory of the artillery shells very stable and the accuracy doubled.
In the past smoothbore cannon era, there was always a small gap between the cannonball and the barrel. When the gunpowder exploded, the strong thrust caused the cannonball to collide back and forth in the barrel, which would cause an insurmountable impact at the moment the cannon was ejected from the chamber. Elusive, that is, a directional deviation of one or two millimeters.
A one millimeter deviation of the muzzle will be an error of ten or even tens of meters on the battlefield, so the ballistic trajectory of the smoothbore gun is unpredictable.
But the rifled gun solves this problem. The rifling cuts into the skin of the cannonball like a small cutting knife, causing the cannonball to form a rotating force. This way of flying the ballistics is very stable. Since it is stable, then there are mathematicians It's time to use it.
Artillery can truly become the god of the battlefield only if it can shoot blindly. Artillery does not need to visually see the battlefield. They only need the forward observation post to provide them with various data. Then through simple trigonometric calculations, people can know the muzzle posture. Make adjustments.
This is what Xiao Letian is doing now. The Japanese can't understand it, but the French are all good people. They know at a glance that Xiao Letian has mastered the most advanced artillery technology in the world at that time.
"God, why did you allow such a monster to appear in Asia? It has only been a few years, and he has been able to catch up to this level. What will happen in the long run? Europe's advantage will be lost."
Minister Roche has made up his mind that when he returns to Europe, he must visit the kings of various countries. He will state his interests and interests. He will unite the whole of Europe to eliminate Xiao Letian, the great enemy.
Xiao Letian laughed enough. He pointed at the hot air balloon in the sky and said, "That is our battlefield observation post. As long as he is there, our fleet will have a pair of God's eyes. We will not need to use the Marine Corps at all. Today's battle The combat artillery can wrap up the circle."
Next to him, Luo Huo said sourly, "Hey... they have all taken away the credit... If I had known this, I might as well have signed up to be a navy."
Xiao Hexin rolled his eyes at him, "Just you, the navy is a technical branch. If you are not proficient in Western arithmetic, you will not be able to command a battleship even if I am given you. I have asked you to read more books, but you just don't listen..."
Xiao Letian had no time to pay attention to the bickering among his men. He climbed to the high platform behind the Second City and observed the battlefield with a telescope. At this time, on the sea, the three battleships Rome, Lyra and Wavebreaker had all adjusted. In good posture, forty-six artillery guns roared with each salvo.
In the distance, Matsudaira Yongho was stunned. He could not figure out why the artillery shells on the sea seemed to have eyes and were specifically looking for his own military formation to bomb. What on earth was that blue balloon in the sky? That terrifying and grinning one. What exactly is a monster?
"God's punishment, this is God's punishment... Give the order to speed up the pursuit and get entangled with the enemy, otherwise we will be blown up sooner or later..."
However, no matter how fast two legs were, they could not reach the shells faster. The number of destroyed companies rose sharply, and the morale of the Tokugawa New Army was on the verge of collapse.
Xixing Longsheng and Shanxian Youpeng are now together. They are dumbfounded. Everything in front of them is beyond their imagination. This new battle mode is something they have never imagined.
"This is what Xiao Letian did. How did he do it? Why didn't any of my Ryukyu soldiers see it? Saigo-kun, what on earth is going on." Yamaxian Youto is about to collapse. Today's battle The change from morning to night is too big to digest.
"I don't know, I don't know what's going on, but there is only one person who can create such a miracle, and that is Xiao Letian... We were on guard against everything before, but in the end we let him step in. Once this strong man If we stay in Japan, it will be difficult for us to send him away..." Saigo Takamori thought for a while and suddenly shouted.
"Sakamoto Ryoma-kun, please come here. Please come quickly." After a while, Sakamoto Ryoma came running quickly with gauze hanging on his head.
"Ryoma-kun, please tell me what it is and what happened on the battlefield."
"Hai..." Sakamoto Ryoma bowed slightly and said, "What flies in the sky should be hot air balloons. I heard about it when I was in Ryukyu. This is a Western aircraft that can carry people into the sky. Please see what's underneath the balloon. If there is a hanging basket, then there are people on it.”
The two took a closer look under the afterglow of the setting sun, and sure enough, there were really two people busy with something under the scary hot air balloon.
"Judging from the current density and direction of artillery fire, these shells are pouring from Ryukyu warships. As expected, they should be the Rome, Lyra, and Wavebreaker captured by Xiao Letian..."
"Enough, let's get to the point. I want to know why Xiao Letian's artillery can bypass Osaka City and still hit it so accurately." Yamagata Aritomo asked irritably.
"It should be the people on the hot air balloon sending a signal to the fleet, and then the fleet's artillerymen will aim according to the signal... I only know so much. This should be the latest war technique in Europe, and it should be Prime Minister Xiao's hand The secret that has never been told."
"The secret that has not been told." Shanxian Youpeng's eyes burst out with flames. His right hand unconsciously grasped the handle of the sword, and his whole body was filled with murderous aura.
"The secret of not spreading it, this is Xiao Letian's attitude towards allies. He would rather watch us fail than hide his secrets. I think he deliberately wants us, Japan, to suffer losses on both sides. After all, you, Sakamoto Ryoma, still have his blood of Xiao Letian." , no wonder you gave Tokugawa Qingxi some advice, you just wanted to profit from both sides, and in the end you and Xiao Letian became the last fishermen."
Sakamoto Ryoma never expected that his loyalty would eventually lead to such great suspicion. "Yamagata-kun, my loyalty to the emperor is evident. You can kill me but you must not insult me."
"Baga." Yamagata Aritomo drew out his sword and was about to attack Sakamoto Ryoma, but Sakamoto Ryoma was not just a commander, so members of the sea rescue team rushed up to protect him. "Baga, do you want to fight with each other? The battle situation has become so difficult, and you still want to fight among yourself." Saigo Takamori was furious, with veins on his forehead jumping wildly. His anger suppressed everyone present.
Yamagata Aritomo and Sakamoto Ryoma both realized their gaffe and quickly bowed and admitted their mistake and took a step back.
At this time, Saigo Takamori bowed to Sakamoto Ryoma and said very sincerely, "Ryoma-kun, the current battlefield is no longer something I can understand. I hope you can teach me." This book was first published from, and you can read the original content first. !
