Chapter 553: The Whip of a Fiery Flame
After hearing the early-warning bell ring, all the people in the command module became spirited .
The first mate instantly charged at a pile of dense sound-transmission pipes in the command module . He opened a sound-transmission mouth that led to observation post at the top of the airship and roared, "What's happening?"
"There's a large-scale battle 20 km away from us in the 9 o'clock direction!"
"There's a large-scale battle 20 km away from us in the 9 o'clock direction!"
A loud voice drifted from the sound transmission pipes for twice . Until the first mate answered, "Copy that" did it stop .
In a split second, everybody turned around and looked at Zhang Tie . Airships such as the Idiots could choose to join such a ground combat or not . As a spontaneous 'folk armed force' heading for Selnes Theater of Operations, nobody forced them to do something . It only depended on the captain . Only when they arrived at the Selnes Theater of Operations could their action be restricted .
"Ring the battle alarm; prepare for attacking the ground . Turn around the airship, I will take a look down there!" Zhang Tie delivered his order immediately .
On the 3rd day after leaving Jinyun Country, the Idiots rung its battle alarm for the first time . Soon after that, everybody in the airship became busy out of excitement . After adjusting its angle flexibly, the huge triangular-shaped body of the fury-level airship accelerated its speed right away and flew towards the battlefield in the distance .
Zhang Tie adjusted the angle of the bird-view imaging lens in front of him and instantly captured the scene on the battlefield 20 km away——
A human troop was evacuating from a valley while the demonized puppets were chasing closely after them . A great number of women and kids were running towards the east in a flurried manner . That human army worked as the shield and the barrier for those women and kids . The human troop was safeguarding a bridge on the riverside and preventing demonized puppets from breaking through .
The two parties were fighting fiercely nearby the bridge . Zhang Tie found some people were trying to destroy the bridge so as to hold back the demonized puppets . However, that bridge's abutment was in the form of a steel frame, which could hardly be completely destroyed . At the same time, the human troop was forced back by demonized puppets step by step .
There were over 10,000 human soldiers and about 30,000-40,000 demonized puppets across the battlefield . Additionally, more and more demonized puppets were rushing out of the valley . In Zhang Tie's eyes, this was not a large-scale battle; however, it was extremely fierce . Especially when more and more demonized puppets rushed out of the valley, the human troop's situation became critical .
"You command the following battle . You can mobilize all the means in the airship and give a sharp blow to those demonized puppets . Destroy that bridge and let the human troop, the women and the kids leave out of there safely . " Zhang Tie delivered an order to the first mate .
"Yes, sir!" the first mate replied loudly . Closely after that, he glanced at the clock in the command module before shouting loudly, "At 14:27, on April 7th, the airship encountered a battle . The first mate took over the battle command!"
To command the airship to join a ground combat required very senior commanding skills . One had to learn 3 years in regular military academy plus many years of practice before becoming a qualified airship commander . As Zhang Tie had not learned any airship commanding courses at the college or being taught in practice, it was indeed out of his ability to command the airship to join a battle .
Therefore, in such a case, Zhang Tie appointed the first mate who was an experienced airship commander . Zhang Tie would decide whether they would join the battle or not while the first mate would determine how to fight with the consent of all the crew members in the airship . After all, nobody would like to put their lives in the hand of an outsider .
At this moment, Zhang Tie's role was like that of the political commissar in the human troops before the Catastrophe . Actually, Zhang Tie's power was much greater than that of the political commissar . In other words, the first mate of the airship was more like a senior battle adviser .
"Altitude!" the first mate roared in the command module while the whole command module entered a tense battle state .
"2100 . . . " a crew member standing in front of a lot of dashboards replied loudly at once .
"How long does it take us to be close to the target?"
"4'57''!" another voice shouted .
"Adjust the entrance angle; ground reference, the iron bridge on the river; entrance angle 0 degree, port the helm 20!"
The huge fury-level airship instantly inclined as its entrance angle was adjusted .
After a few seconds, the helmsman replied loudly, "Entrance angle adjustment completed . . . "
"Dive in 30 seconds; height 400 . . . "
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