Fire Dragon Bounty Territory bordered Gaoping Prefecture, Yanzhou Province. It only took Commander Cheng 3 hours to enter the territory of Fire Dragon Bounty Territory from Ninghe Prefecture to Fire Dragon Bounty Territory.
Even without being reminded, Commander Cheng had known it the moment the airboat entered Fire Dragon Bounty Territory.
A team of 9 silver airplanes flew over Commander Cheng's airboat tidily in a herringbone formation at over 2,000 m high from the ground with the roars of their engines.
Compared to airboats, airplanes were too small in speed and size. However, when Commander Cheng caught sight of that team of airplanes for the first time, he was still attracted by that team of airplanes.
The moment he entered Fire Dragon Bounty Territory, Commander Cheng who had been frowning all the way relaxed his frown at once.
"Are those airplanes using Fiery Oil?" Commander Cheng asked Gao Tianqi as he gazed at those airplanes in the clouds below the airboat with gleaming eyes.
"Yes, those are airplanes!" Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem Gao Tianqi was also watching the fleet of airplanes seriously from the airboat. As the supervisor of Commander Cheng nominally, although he was just the head of Commander Cheng's bodyguards nominally, Commander Cheng actually treated Gao Tianqi as the future provincial governor. Actually, Gao Tianqi was half secretary of Commander Cheng and paid attention to the military and political affairs in Northeast Military Region. Of course, Gao Tianqi could get the news about what happened in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory these months. "These airplanes are Air Cavalry Type-I produced by Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory. Over the past 2 months, a batch of general airports have been built across Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory which could take off and land airships and airplanes at the same time. There's even a flight school called Air Cavalry Flight Academy outside Xuantian City. As a result, those young people in Youzhou Province are crazy about it.
In this age, besides knights who could fly, nobody else could. Therefore, it was very attractive for young people to drive a machine and fly in the sky.
"Flight school? Where do their instructors come from?"
"It's said that they're recruited from airship crew who could drive gliders. They're treated well. The manipulation and flight principles of airplanes are not more complicated than that of gliders. After being familiar with them, they could try to fly. Oh, the teaching material in Iron-Dragon Flight Academy is called Flight Driving Manual. It's said that it was written by Qianji Hermit himself!"
Commander Cheng was really amazed as he asked, "Does Zhang Tie have such an ability?"
"Commander Cheng, don't forget that before coming to Taixia Country, Qianji Hermit had gained the title of Selnes Eagle before promoting to a knight in Waii Subcontinent. It's said that Qianji Hermit was the only air cavalry on the battlefield who could drive the only artificial airplane on the battlefield. Qianji Hermit could protect an airship troop in the sky alone. Therefore, he was regarded as the God in the sky by many airship crew!"
When Zhang Tie was still a black iron knight, Gao Tianqi would still be jealous of Zhang Tie; however, as the gap between them was growing wider, Gao Tianqi only admired Zhang Tie instead of being jealous of him.
"Let's go down there and take a look …" Commander Cheng became interested as he directly wanted to take a look off the airboat regardless of whether they were on the airboat or not.
Facing this situation, Gao Tianqi could only leave a message to the people on the airboat before following Commander Cheng off the airboat.
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Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem The 9 airplanes were flying in the sky below. Cheng Honglie and Gao Tianqi flew off and came to the side of the leading airplane a few meters away from it. At the same time, they started to evaluate the performance and value of the airplanes in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory.
Thankfully, it might not be the first time for the pilot to meet knights in the sky. Although he was shocked by the appearance of Cheng Honglie and Gao Tianqi, he soon recovered his composure.
After that pilot made a hand gesture, all the other airplanes in the formation flew as usual without being flurried.
The leading plane was the captain of this formation.
Just a few meters away, a crew member in his twenties who was controlling the crossbow weapon sitting in the shooting compartment behind the cockpit of the first plane was staring at Cheng Honglie and Gao Tianqi who were flying outside the plane a few meters away with his eyes wide open.
As for common fighters, it was rare for them to see two knights flying so close to them.
Commander Cheng nodded inside when he found that this formation didn't flurried after encountering the two knights.
At this moment, compared to the original one that Zhang Tie used to fly in, the air cavalry type-I in the sky had some minor changes in cabin cover, seat arrangement, rear-view mirror, oxygen breathing system and the pattern of the steam-powered crossbow in the shooting compartment. All these changes were made according to the large-scale training of air cavalry type-I in the past 2 months and the opinions of the pilots and shooters. Through these modifications, the mass production form of the 9 air cavalry type-I was finally determined.
Just now, Commander Cheng and Gao Tianqi didn't see the objects on the bellies of these airplanes due to the angle of view. When they drew closer to the bellies of the 9 airplanes, they saw an object which was similar to white phosphorous gel incendiary bomb on airships.
The airplanes flew rapidly in the sky. Like Ninghe Prefecture, the land under Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory was also golden. It was also the time for summer harvest in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory.
This year's summer harvest in Ninghe Prefecture was like a big fire burning over the fertile land. However, the summer harvest in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory was in full swing. As a result, the great harvest in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory made all the major clans and commoners in the farmlands happy and energetic as if they were not influenced by the outside world at all.
It was a busy scene of harvesting in the fields. Only when they saw the planes flying in the sky would the people who were harvesting in the fields raise their heads, wipe their sweat, and wave at the planes in the sky or cheer.
Commander Cheng had been traveling over all the major grain-producing areas in Northeast Military Region except for Youzhou Province by airboat in the past half a month. Over the past half a month, Commander Cheng had seen a gloomy scene. This year's summer harvest failure was absolutely catastrophic. Facing such a scene, all the officials and commoners were flurried and miserable. After coming to Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory and watching such a vigorous and hopeful scene, Commander Cheng felt much better at once.
Although there were two more uninvited guests, the 9 Air Cavalry I airplanes still stuck to their own flight route. They were not influenced at all.
After flying for more than an hour, the nine planes had flown past Wugong City and Dongyang City and entered the Yangui Mountain Range. After flying for more than half an hour, a valley with a radius of hundreds of kilometers appeared below the formation. Aside from soil, stones, and a small amount of shrubs and weeds, there were also some weeds.
From the sky, it could be seen that on the ground in the valley, someone seemed to have drawn a huge circular area with a diameter of several hundred meters with lime. On the other side of this circular area, a few kilometers away from the circular area, many people in military uniforms were waiting on a hillside.
When the nine airplanes arrived above the valley, all the airplanes turned their wings like vultures hunting for prey. The entire formation was divided into two groups at once. With a whistling sound, they swooped down from thousands of meters in the sky.
When the two teams of airplanes were hundreds of meters away from that circular region, the objects which were similar to white phosphorous gel bombs hanging from the bellies of each airplane instantly dropped off and flew towards that circular region. When those objects were dozens of meters away from the ground, all of them gave out flames. In a split second, a heat wave rushed into the sky. The greater part of the huge circular region with a diameter of hundreds of meters was covered with scorching flames in a split second. All the soil, weeds and even stones within the white circle were burned fiercely. Grasses and woods were burned into ashes and disappeared; stones were disintegrated and soil was hardened. Due to the burning, the air in the center of the white circle became thinner and boiling...
When the airplanes swooped down, Cheng Honglie and Gao Tianqi had already stopped in the sky. As a matter of fact, when they saw the huge white circle on the ground, the two of them knew what the airplanes were for.
This seemed to be a live-fire attack drill. To their surprise, the result of this drill was very amazing. The nine airplanes threw nine incendiary bombs. All of a sudden, the circle on the ground turned into a purgatory. Even though they were thousands of meters high in the sky, the two of them could feel the heat wave rising from the ground.
Common white phosphorous gel bombs could never be so destructive and powerful. What the 9 airplanes dropped were not white phosphorous gel bombs; instead, they were more powerful and powerful incendiary bombs. Taixia Country had never seen such a kind of incendiary bomb before … (To be continued)
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