Chapter 292 Precision Guided Bomb

The training place for pistol shooting was arranged in the vestibule of the castle.

Including Sylvie, all the witches selected into the scouting team were given a revolver.

After Roland spent two days getting everyone familiar with and mastering the gun-holding posture, the training entered the live ammunition shooting session. The main content is divided into ten-meter aiming shooting and five-meter rapid shooting to deal with the two situations of being prepared to meet the enemy and encountering a surprise attack.

The witches behaved well during the gun practice, but when it came to shooting, they revealed their secrets.

Especially when the deafening gunshots rang out, the first thing most people did was to plug their ears, which made Nightingale raise her eyebrows.

Except for Anna.

I saw her holding the gun in both hands without moving, pulling the trigger continuously, completely ignoring the sound of gunshots and gunpowder smoke. Regardless of the aim, this movement alone is done neatly.

Could it be that apart from learning knowledge, Anna is also extremely talented in other aspects? Roland was secretly surprised, but as a large-caliber revolver, even if it uses black powder bullets, it still has strong recoil. Why can her arm remain motionless during continuous shooting?

He walked behind the opponent curiously, and saw two balls of black fire clinging to the handle, firmly clamping it in the air, while Anna just made a false grip and didn't touch the pistol at all. After patting her on the shoulder, she pulled out the black fire that was used as earplugs from her ears, with a "come and praise me" expression on her face, "how about it, I hit all the targets!"

Roland couldn't laugh or cry, so he had to announce loudly: "Everyone is not allowed to use abilities to assist in practice!".

"Eh, why?"

"If you encounter an enemy who has the God's Stone of Retaliation, wouldn't you be in a hurry?" Roland sighed, and reached out to help Anna plug her ears, "I won't be afraid in this way."

"Yeah!" Her bright eyes were full of smiles, and she raised the gun to aim again after changing the bullet.

"Maggie, come quickly, I also need to plug my ears," Lightning yelled enviously.

"Gu?" The latter pointed to the gun in his hand.

"After you become a bird, you won't be able to shoot anyway," the little girl winked. "You block it for me first, and I'll block it for you later."

"Goo!"

The other witches in the castle were also attracted by the continuous gunshots, and gradually gathered in the front yard of the castle, many of them showed signs of eagerness to try. In the end, almost everyone came up to experience the operation method of the hot weapon.

Seeing a group of colorful women happily fiddling with the weapons in their hands, Roland was filled with emotion.

Until now, he still remembered the first time he met each witch.

Anna used to have hands and feet as thin as a bamboo pole, her eyes were lifeless, and her face always had an expression;

Nightingale's eyebrows always had a cloud, and her smile had nothing to do with emotions, or it was just to cover up her emotions, and she always put a teasing smile on the corner of her mouth;

And Wendy's unconcealable exhaustion after softly speaking, Ye Zi's resignation and confusion when she threw the future at her fingertips, and Lily who is full of vigilance like a cat;

And Lightning, Mystery Moon, Hummingbird, Scroll, etc...

After experiencing oppression, framing and hunting, it is a kind of luck to survive. As for where I will go, I have no time to think about it. But now, they are completely different from the past.

The witches exude unique charms, and their eyes are shining brightly. The future is no longer confusing for them—besides being able to survive, they have the strength to pursue other things, some of which are as important as life. wonderful things.

And whenever he saw the gratitude and trust expressed by the witches when they looked at him, Roland felt full of strength in his heart.

...

After lunch, in the afternoon it was his turn to practice high-altitude throwing specially formulated for the "Autumn Offensive". The number of witches participating in the drill was reduced by more than half, leaving only Anna, Wendy, and Lightning.

This is also the minimum number of people needed to complete the air raid.

Setting the attack time at the beginning of the second month of autumn is the result of Roland's careful consideration. If the time is too short, he will not be able to make complete preparations; if it is too late, he may not be able to prevent Timothy from sending troops—as long as he insists on If they decided to launch a large-scale attack on the western border and feed the medicines to the forced civilians, this air strike would not be able to achieve the intended effect.

Therefore, the autumn offensive must be launched before he has fully completed his recruitment.

In order to fulfill his "promise", Roland planned to drop a 250kg bomb directly above the Royal Palace of Graycastle. This bomb, equivalent to the weight of five nightingales, will be dropped from a height of 2,000 meters, directly penetrate the dome of the palace, and detonate inside the palace.

As the hot air balloon slowly lifted into the sky, the huge gondola carried a solid simulated bomb into the sky—since Roland was also riding in the gondola, this solid iron bomb was one size smaller, only about the weight of four nightingales. . However, its shape is exactly the same as the aerial bombs that will be put into actual combat in the future. It adopts a streamlined shell with a thick front and a thin rear, with a stabilized tail and a parachute at the end, which can ensure that it is always perpendicular to the ground when it falls, and its maximum falling speed can be controlled.

The throwing basket has also been specially modified, and an iron bracket is erected so that the bomb stands vertically in the center of the basket, half of which protrudes from the bottom of the basket. As long as the valve is pulled up and the claw mechanism is released, the bomb will leave the hanging basket and fall straight down.

As the altitude continued to rise, Border Town was soon reduced to a piece the size of a fingernail, and the Chishui River turned into a gleaming silver ribbon.

"It's the first time I've stood at such a high place," Wendy looked out through the observation window, "It feels like the entire Western Territory has become smaller."

"Because this place itself is very small," Roland said with a chuckle, "Look at the wild land to the north, that's where we should go in the future."

"Do you want to go up again? I can't see the target point soon," Lightning shouted outside the gondola.

"That's about it," he nodded to Anna, and then made a gesture of preparation to the little girl.

Although it is impossible to judge how far it is from the ground at this time, there should be more than 1,000 meters—it is absolutely safe to launch an attack at this height, and the enemy cannot observe the movement of the hot air balloon.

However, the airdrop distance of more than a thousand meters means that the hit depends entirely on fate. If you want to hit the target accurately, the bomb must have a guidance system.

And the little girl Lightning will take on this task.

"Drop the bomb," Roland ordered.

Wendy pulled the valve, dropped the bomb, and the airflow immediately poured into the hanging basket. Anna sealed the throwing hole with the cover plate that had been prepared, and tightened the fixing bracket—these procedures were practiced repeatedly on land, and the two of them seemed to work very well together.

"Can she hit the target?" Wendy asked by the window.

"We won't know the answer until we go down," Roland shrugged.

During the falling process of the bomb, the lightning will fall at the same speed as it, and exert a horizontal thrust on it, so that the bomb can change its trajectory freely, thus becoming an aerial bomb with guidance capability. When it is about to approach the target, the tail mechanism will be pulled by Lightning to separate the drogue parachute from the bomb body, and the bomb will gain sufficient kinetic energy in the last few hundred meters until it penetrates the roof of the palace.

In this way, a sufficiently high drop distance has instead become a guarantee for precise control of the drop point.

All that's left is to keep practicing the process.