Steel steam and flame

The five people immediately divided into two groups, one group rushed to the nearest room, and the other group rushed to the house where Agnes was. The sound of explosions was heard from the distant sky. At the same time, the airship shook, but the crew still maintained balance under the control. Immediately, tiny vibrations began to spread throughout everything in the airship. Mavis and the others could hear the sound coming from the steam furnace, which was the internal friction sound of extremely high-pressure steam passing through the pipes.

The overload alarm sound was mixed with the sound of gunfire and continuous explosions. At this moment, Mavis and the others also went to the round window of the room and artificially shattered the bulletproof glass. In the outer space with a roughly circular field of vision, the two fireballs dissipated the flames and turned into thick smoke that expanded and spread over the woods to form a large smoke belt.

The smoke generated by the explosion of several aerial bombs almost covered most of the field of vision. During the gap between enemy attacks, Mavis and the other seven people finally understood the enemy's intentions. The first wave of attacks never considered hitting them head-on. The real purpose was to use the smoke generated by the explosion to create a blind spot.

The airship was rising steadily, and the air coming in through the window already smelled of gunpowder smoke. The impact of the explosion is not great on the airship. Although the shaking makes people feel dangerous, it is still a vehicle prepared for the knight's attendants and will not be so fragile.

"Descend immediately, it's too dangerous in the sky!" A short moment later, Agnes roared again, and let the sound spread into the crew's cab. The remaining six people did not immediately follow the conversation, and the ascending airship suddenly hovered in mid-air amid vibrations.

"Descend, notify the team at the mine immediately!" As the owner of the airship, Mavis immediately answered. The last byte of the sound fell, and a large red color appeared in the smoke that blocked the field of vision. With Agnes's "alert" sound, seven people at the limited window took out their firearms and prepared to greet him. The enemy's second wave of aerial bomb attacks.

"At four o'clock, we are currently about forty meters away from the ground. After landing on the ground, we will march in this direction! The enemy's launch position is about eight thousand meters away from us!" Agnes witnessed these aerial bombs for the first time. , when he said this information, the aerial bomb had already dragged its flame tail through the spreading smoke.

But before he, Mousse and others started shooting, the bombs were about to detonate in advance. The three aerial bombs that broke through the smoke had already exploded in mid-air. A large amount of powder spread out due to the explosion, forming three white curtains like jellyfish skirts, and sprinkled them on the airship. In just half a breath, a few sparks flickered, and the scattered gunpowder exploded into small pieces. In the blink of an eye, they suddenly merged into one, and blazing white flames spread out.

The impact brought heated air towards Mavis and others, and the subsequent aerial bombs used the explosion to close the distance with the airship again, and started to separate under the timer. The casings of several aerial bombs were thrown away on their own initiative, and dozens of micro-cannons with short-range accelerating tails collided with the airship like a spread net. At the same time, the last few aerial bombs passed through an obvious glide line, hit the stopped airship, and overturned it completely.

It's just that the impact and scorching light produced by the explosion did not pose any threat to Agnes and the others. Even the eyes of the surgeon were extremely fragile, but the explosion was not enough to affect their visible field of vision. The accuracy of the firearms was enough to allow them to detonate most of the scattered micro-cannons in advance in a very short period of time.

In a short moment, dozens of artillery pieces exploded in mid-air. The flame disappeared, and the transformed black-gray smoke got closer to the airship. It was almost like a thick dark cloud lying in front, completely blocking the view behind it. The shock never left the airship from the beginning, and the continuous explosion shock made the crew members sweat all over their bodies. They struggled to stabilize their balance and ensure that they could land safely.

"Be prepared to jump at any time! The distance is twenty meters, and the soil below should be enough to offset the force of the fall. Don't tell me now that there are still some of you who have not strengthened your bones!" Agnes's voice was really loud. On the one hand, the buzzing sound of the lifting device poured directly into the room after the window shattered. On the other hand, the influx of chaotic airflow also stirred up a howling wind around them.

There was still a short pause, and the seven people finished changing bullets at an extremely fast speed. Mavis put down the communicator that had been pressing the contact button at this moment, and informed others that the signal had been jammed by the enemy.

"According to the established plan, everyone pays attention to the sensing detection in the direction they are responsible for! Don't let the enemies on the ground have the opportunity to invade our sensing range because of the enemy's attack!" Augustus added at this time.

"The other party is fully prepared. Is it because they have been discovered in the past few days..." Saint Gede continued. Before he finished speaking, the seven people felt something abnormal almost at the same time and looked up at the sky. But there was only a ceiling made of thin metal plates in sight. Where some metal plates fell, steam red copper pipes and circuits were arranged in a bunch and neatly fixed on the metal shelves.

"Above!" I couldn't tell whose voice it was. Almost at the same time as this sentence came out, three missiles circled a long distance above the airship, and suddenly descended like a bridge between the launch site and the airship. . They burned up the last bit of propellant and plummeted from the sky.

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"Master Hai, the mission has been successfully completed. Do you need to leave a few people to observe the situation?" In an open area thousands of meters away, under the camouflage net, the captain looked at the airship that was falling diagonally as its fuselage burned. Ordered to launch the last few aerial bombs. Most of the personnel cleared the traces and began to evacuate. There were still a few people around the captain who were placing bombs around the position to destroy the last traces.

"No need, you evacuate as fast as you can. That's not a place that just a few of you can observe. Soon, it's not hard to imagine who will gather there collectively."

"Understood, Master Hai." The captain said. He waved his hand to the people around him, signal interference was restarted, and the few remaining people left from here. Immediately, following a series of explosions, everything at the launch site was buried by flying soil.

At the same time, three aerial bombs falling straight down hit the same location one after another. After lifting off the thick protective shell, they used a set of lifting devices to blast a huge gap in the front end of the airship's oval body. There was the important unit control room, with broken pipes and various metal structures scattered all over the place along the fall route. The still-working steam furnace caused the disconnected pipes to emit a large amount of milky white steam, once completely covering the burning smoke.

The fall only took a few seconds. The falling airship crushed a large number of trees along the way and plowed out a wide strip of fresh soil on the ground. It rolled down once or twice before coming to a complete stop. Some scattered parts were still burning. On the airship's body, steam spewed out like a powerful volcano, spitting out a large amount of smoke and filling the low-lying areas. The chissing sound quickly covered up all the sounds. Except for the flames, within a few breaths, the place fell into silence.