Apart from a few standing trees, a few remaining trunks and stumps, and trees in the distance, the place was riddled with craters.
This is why cars no longer use this road: it is actually impossible to use cars here anymore.
No matter how the goblin engineers backfilled these craters, more craters would appear the next day. The Tang Empire's bombs destroyed roads much faster than the goblins could repair them.
What's more... the opponent will occasionally use a weapon called ghost thunder by goblins, making this road more dangerous. This weapon is actually the cluster bomb of the Tang Empire.
The material science progress of the Datang Empire is beyond people's imagination: for the same kind of fuze, the Datang Empire will use a kind of plastic to fix the fuze safety. Then you can set the bomb's explosion time according to different situations.
If you want this kind of bomb to explode when it hits the ground, then just remove these plastic insurances and leave only a very sensitive collision insurance. The submunition explodes immediately upon impact.
If you want the bomb to explode a little later, you can install an acid container. During the impact of the bomb, the acid container breaks and the acid flows out, corroding the plastic safety device.
This process takes several hours, or even a day or two, to complete, so the bomb could explode at any time during the process. This is completely automatic and not affected by any external factors.
What's even more frightening is that the acid container may not rupture...or the acid may not completely corrode the safety device on the bomb after it ruptures.
Yes, this bomb may explode in a month, it may explode in a year... it may also explode in a few years.
If you're being extra unethical, you could even leave the plastic insurance untouched and let these bombs explode any day for the next ten years.
Yes, as long as the other devices of this bomb can still work normally, it may explode at any time in the next ten or even twenty years... Maybe it will never explode again at all, but who dares to bet?
The most troublesome thing about mine clearing work is this kind of bomb. Compared with landmines, its explosion is random! As long as a landmine can still work normally, it has a triggering condition, but the explosion of this kind of submunition depends entirely on your mood.
When its internal mechanism is still in a stable state, it won't explode if you kick it like a ball. But if it is unstable, it will suddenly explode even if nothing happens around it.
This is why many countries on the planet have signed a convention not to use such cluster bombs: it has no lower limit at all, and it is not even aimed at winning or losing the war. It just simply allows a piece of land to be destroyed in the next few decades. Unable to use, the people living on this land suffered as a result.
This is why it is so difficult to build a railway on the southeastern peninsula: in the next three or even five years after the railway construction cooperation is discussed, the road construction team will have to wait for the mine clearance engineers to complete the work before construction can begin.
The Tang Empire had no intention of trapping the orcs, so all cluster bombs would still be equipped with acid devices, or simply use impact fuses.
However, due to the small size and the uncertainty of the acid corrosion rate due to temperature, humidity, angle, etc., the explosion time of the cluster bomb will still change.
Another annoying thing about this type of cluster bomb is that it is scattered in the air, and you don't even know where it will land.
It could be on the road, it could be on the roadbed, it could roll into a field, or it could be buried in the soil for any number of reasons.
This is a god of death who will suddenly appear at a certain time and then send away everything around him.
The goblins leading their horses on such a road were actually risking their lives. Although the death rate was lower than before, there were not even a thousand but eight hundred delivery men who died on this road. They were either killed by planes or killed by planes. Submunitions that die from cluster bomb delay are, in a word... very dangerous.
Regardless of whether it is a car or a carriage, it is easy to be attacked by an aircraft. A single person is relatively safer. Many Tang Army pilots will choose to let such low-value targets go because they do not want to waste ammunition.
He pulled the strap on his shoulder with his hand, adjusted its position, and eased the pain in his shoulder. He continued to walk forward cautiously. There were some metal fragments on the ground, and most people didn't have the courage to pick them up.
After all, those things might be metal fragments, or they might be part of a bomb half buried underground...
Suddenly, the goblin seemed to hear something, he stopped, and the old horse behind him also stopped tacitly.
Through the gusts of breeze, the goblin vaguely heard some mosquito-like movements. He raised his head and looked at the sky, squinting his eyes in the hope of seeing further.
Although he was not sure and did not see any trace of the plane, the cautious old goblin was still sure that he heard the familiar sound of the plane engine.
He pulled the horse's reins and walked down the road along the roadbed full of craters. He walked very carefully, because on such a bad road, there was a high probability that there would be some so-called "ghost mines" that had not detonated.
"Hurry up! Old guy! If we keep going like this, we'll all be doomed." Although he walked carefully, he was urging the slow-moving old horse behind him.
The old horse was indeed walking very slowly. It was already very old, and it was also carrying a bunch of heavy goods, and it was walking on a bumpy and downhill road, so its pace was very hesitant.
Just after the goblin got his horse off the road, he saw the plane with a buzzing engine: a small IL attack aircraft in the shape of a "Shi".
Under normal circumstances, this type of aircraft is relatively easy to deal with: because most of the IL attack aircraft operating near Dingcheng are from the air force of the Orc force. They have little combat experience and not many new weapons, so they are not that difficult to deal with.
Breathing a sigh of relief, the old orc led the old horse through more than ten meters of broken trees and large and small craters, walked to the edge of the remaining forest, and hid under a tree.
The plane was still far away from him, and it was basically impossible to see him on the ground. Even if they see it, as long as they go into the woods alone, the opponent will not waste ammunition.
If you fire without a clear target, the probability of hitting the target is very low: you don't know the direction the opponent is heading into the woods, so it makes no sense to fire rashly.
Through the branches and leaves overhead, the old goblin saw the hovering plane. At this time, he did not dare to go out on the road casually, which would only make his death worthless.
He didn't know how they would be able to transport goods to Dingcheng during the day after the leaves began to fall in two months, and he didn't know if Dingcheng could hold on until then.
For some reason, the IL attack aircraft lowered its altitude. At this time, another IL attack aircraft followed up. This was also in line with the air combat tutorial of the Tang Empire. It is best to have at least two aircraft in any combat operation. Act simultaneously.
The lead aircraft and the wingman can cooperate with each other and attack the enemy more effectively. This tactic is effective, so it is still used today.
Theoretically speaking, this tactic has indeed been tested in actual combat, so Tang Mo would have no problem using it directly.
The two planes flew along the road in tandem in the direction where the old goblin came from. They seemed to be looking for targets on the ground. This was also a technical job for the pilots.
After all, a stationary person on the ground is too small for a high-altitude pilot. At this time, the Orcs do not have any ground search pods, nor do they have a moving target analysis AI system to assist in judgment, so they can only rely on the naked eye to identify them.
But the problem is that there are a lot of things on this road: there are cars that were not towed away in time and abandoned on the road, horses that were killed, broken carriages, and craters of various sizes.
It is really not easy to find a few targets to attack in such a chaotic environment.
At an altitude of about five hundred meters, the two planes were arrogantly circling one after another. I don't know if they saw the old goblin and his old horse. The two orc planes never left and were just going back and forth nearby. flight.
Since the Orc troops built a front-line airport, their IL attack aircraft can fly freely in the southwest of the island. The goblin air force has almost lost its ability to fight, and the orc air force has controlled the air superiority near Dingcheng.
The goblins didn't have many anti-aircraft guns, so they could only watch these Il and Stuka flying back and forth in the sky like flies.
The Stuka is generally used to attack bunkers in mountainous areas. The large aerial bombs it carries can be somewhat of a deterrent to bunkers and shooting holes created by hollowing out mountains.
After all, as long as there is no interference, the Stuka's attack accuracy is very high, and the 500-kilogram aerial bomb also has a certain destructive power on stones.
Therefore, the task of attacking ground convoys and small targets falls on the IL attack. It can carry rockets and 20mm-caliber aerial cannons, and is full of deterrence in low-altitude attacks.
As long as one is discovered by such an aircraft, one only needs to lower the nose of the aircraft and shoot at the ground, and then use rockets and cannons to plow two ravines, allowing the surrounding people and vehicles to experience what is called wind and rain.
The old goblin sat under a tree and rested for a few minutes. The two planes overhead showed no intention of leaving, which made him very irritated: he even suspected that the other party had seen him and was waiting for him here.
Just wait and wait! Let me see if you run out of gas and can’t leave! With a little bit of anger, the old goblin thought in his heart.
(End of chapter)
