New Ming Empire mixed in America

"What is that?"

Looking at the three airships that began to lower their altitude in the sky, the residents of Washington looked confused.

"This is not a reconnaissance balloon. A reconnaissance balloon is not that big!"

As the airship descended, people on the ground gradually saw the appearance of the airship clearly.

The sudden appearance of such a huge aircraft in the sky eventually caused panic.

Many people started running towards their homes, but some people climbed up to the roof to see the airship up close.

Finally someone took out the telescope and saw clearly the flag hanging below the airship in the sky.

"This is an Oriental aircraft...are the Orientals coming?"

In the suburbs of Washington, a young man sat on the roof of his home, holding his father's telescope in his hand and muttering in disbelief.

These residents of Washington were very familiar with the Oriental flag.

News about the cruelty of the Orientals appeared in newspapers every now and then.

It was obviously the expedition to Peru last year, but when the newspapers publicized it, it seemed as if the New Ming Empire had been attacking other countries during this period.

The sights in every Beijing and Temple imbued everyone with the impression that the Orientals of the Xinming Empire were devils.

The young man suddenly dropped the telescope and ran into his room frantically.

There was a shotgun given to him by his father, said to be a weapon captured from Southern rednecks on the battlefield.

At this time, his father was sitting in a wheelchair. He looked at the young man strangely and said, "Sith, run slowly, be careful of falling..."

After realizing that Qing Nian ignored him, the veteran who came off the battlefield hammered his thigh.

His legs were cut off at the calf, and he could only adjust the pedals to the highest position in the wheelchair so that he could put the remaining half of his legs on them.

The hostess used the square characters on the armrests of the wheelchair as patterns and wiped them very brightly.

Soon, the young man ran out grabbing the rifle. When he saw his father looking at him with worried eyes, he had to say in a hurry: "The warship of the devil from the east is flying over, and it is in the sky."

After hearing his son's strange words, the veteran maneuvered his wheelchair skillfully and came outside the house.

At this time, the young man was loading bullets into the rifle, but the veteran did not reprimand the young man for his poor loading technique, but looked at the air with his mouth wide open.

The appearance of the airship was immediately notified to Lin. After hearing the secretary's report that the Oriental warships were flying over.

"You mean the Eastern warships?" Lin couldn't believe his ears.

"Are our navy deployed in the Gulf of Mexico all idiots? How can we let Eastern warships approach our coast?"

The secretary saw Mr. Lin's look and knew that he had misunderstood, so he quickly said: "It's not at sea, the Eastern warships are flying over from the air!"

As he spoke, the secretary pointed to the window behind Lin with a trembling hand.

This time, someone Lin finally noticed something unusual. He quickly looked back and saw three huge airships in the sky slowly flying towards the White House.

Not long after, Lin heard gunfire near the White House.

It was a self-initiated attack after residents of Washington clearly saw the flag flying below the airship.

They don't have the slightest fondness for the Orientals on the west coast.

These people hated the image of the New Ming Empire promoted in the newspapers. The Orientals on the west coast occupied their land and enslaved their compatriots. They shouted along with the newspapers that this was barbarism overpowering civilization...

Immediately afterwards, the guards guarding the grass in front of the White House also started shooting. But these attacks had no effect on the airships in the sky.

"We should get out of here, I have a bad feeling."

After saying that, Lin grabbed his coat.

Coincidentally, at this time, the rotary machine gun on the airship also began to fire at the ground.

Although there is no accuracy at such a long distance, the random shooting still made the residents of Washington even more panicked.

From the Revolutionary War to the present, they have become accustomed to Washington being attacked.

But no one would have imagined that the capital of the Northern Federation would one day be attacked by enemy fire from the air.

It's like something out of a novel.

Along with the shooting from the airship, Lin's pace quickened a bit.

Not only him, there were more government personnel running in the corridor.

Finally, when everyone ran to the grass outside the White House, they saw the airship dropping a series of objects with white umbrellas in mid-air.

"Mr. President, that looks like a barrel of explosives. I saw the barrel hanging under the white umbrella!"

George Sharp put down his binoculars, grabbed Lin's arm, dragged him and ran towards the vicinity of several mounted police officers.

At this time, other people also saw clearly what was hanging under the white umbrella, and after exclaiming, they ran towards the White House again.

It's not like they haven't seen the power of explosive barrels before. They don't believe that seven or eight explosive barrels in the sky can blow up the White House.

But more people made the same choice as George Sharp and ran outside the White House.

The white umbrella in the sky does not cover a large area. In this case, why not run out of this area and stay here in the White House waiting to be bombed? Isn't this a mental illness?

Pulling down two mounted policemen who were saluting, George Sharp helped Lin onto the horse, and then rode one himself.

Under the protection of the arriving soldiers, he ran outside the area covered by the white umbrella.

"There is wind in the sky, and the position is a bit easterly. We need to adjust the position..."

The observer on the airship lowered his telescope and shouted to the members of the pilot team.

Just now, he clearly saw that the location of the oil barrel bomb only covered a corner of the White House. If he wanted to truly cover the entire White House, he needed to adjust the position of the airship.

Then the airship's engine began to roar, and the propeller drove the airship to move west.

Finally, just when Lin and the others ran a few hundred meters away, the oil barrel bomb in the sky was finally detonated.

Suddenly, a rain of fire filled the sky, exploding four or five meters above the White House, and then quickly fell to the ground.

This scene would be very spectacular at night, but if you watch it during the day, you will only see a ball of black smoke descending rapidly.

After hitting the ground, it spread violently, and all flammable items touched by this flame were ignited.

Along with the church bells ringing, park benches, street lamps, decorative racks, residential roofs, walls, clothes drying poles, and the stables of the White House were not spared.

Finally, all items touched by this flame began to burn violently.

After a few minutes, the residents hiding in their homes ran out of the burning house and looked around for something to extinguish the fire.

The fire brigade near the White House also began to take action, and two steam pumps pulled by trucks rushed towards the stables of the White House.

As for the burning houses and shops of the residents, sorry, the White House stables are more noble than them.

But the residents also started to put out the fire at this time. Groups of spontaneously organized people rushed out of their homes with buckets of water and ran towards the location of the burning house.

Do you feel that these people are very united?

No, this is because the United States at this time had regulations that required every household to be equipped with two fire buckets. Once they heard the church bell, they immediately rushed to the fire scene with the buckets, lined up to draw water from wells or springs, and passed it on in a relay.

If you hear a fire alarm and rush to the fire scene without bringing a bucket, you will be fined $10. This is why these people ran out of their homes to help put out the fire.

However, although this coercive method seems a bit unkind, to be honest, using the law to restrict it is much better than those beasts in China who deliberately blocked fire trucks in later generations.

And at this time, the United States had very strict regulations on construction. Buildings must use stone walls or brick walls, and roofs must be paved with slates or bricks.

Of course, residential areas near the White House will strictly enforce such standards, after all, firefighters' main income comes from checking for such violations.

But those who live in poverty or have lost their jobs will not care about such regulations, especially the shacks built by the poor themselves.

Most of these shacks are built in the streets, built with wooden boards or other cheap materials on the walls of nearby residents' houses.

Faced with such poor people, firefighters have no way to squeeze money out of these people. If things go wrong, large-scale demonstrations will occur.

Therefore, although there are regulations in the city, fires will still break out.

Just eight barrel bombs used for calibration caused quite a fire near the White House.

Incidentally, the stables next to the White House were burned to ashes, and the carriages of government staff inside were burned inside.

As for the horses, the firefighters found that water could not extinguish the flames and were pulled out. (When the carriage is not in use, it is usually unhooked from the horse.)