"Boom, boom, boom......"

Shells rained down from the sky, creating chaos in the city of Ava. Cries and screams resounded throughout the city, and frightened people scurried through the streets.

Akyol couldn't care about the work at hand, so he dragged the apprentice and ran to the backyard. Suddenly stopped at a pile of debris, and while he started to clean up the mess, he said, "Help, let's hide in the cellar." ”

Knowing the seriousness, the boy nodded and followed along. This hidden cellar was originally intended for the owner of the blacksmith shop to hide from the tax collectors.

Doing business in the Ottoman Empire, how could you not evade taxes? Although it was only a small blacksmith shop, at its peak there were more than a dozen bosses and processors.

Just by making farm tools, pots and pans, how much money can these small objects make? What's more, there is a layer of oil and water scraped by the officials, and there are few people who fall into the hands of the boss, how can it be possible to raise so many people?

The owner of the blacksmith shop with a flexible mind naturally did not sit idly by, and decisively opened up a new business - to build weapons, and it is still the kind of weapon that cannot be seen.

With the passage of time, the era of thermal weapons has come, and private work has become more and more difficult to accept. Bandits, bandits, and pirates are becoming less and less likely to come to their doors, and the blacksmith shop is slowly decaying.

By the time of this generation of bosses, a grocery store was opened, and the blacksmith shop, which was the ancestral property, was still preserved. There is only one master in Akyol, who usually creates some daily necessities to sell, but it also maintains it.

When the war broke out, the boss, aware of the danger, ran away with his family, leaving Akyol and a schoolboy behind to look after the shop.

The underground business is gone, and the cellar is abandoned, and apart from the occasional storage of supplies, it is not used much in normal times.

Now it has become a hiding place for the two, and in the small space, the sound of their breathing is clearly visible. The young man asked a little breathlessly, "Master......"

Akyol interrupted, "Stop, I know what you want to ask. But now we can't do anything but hide here.

Hearing the sound of cannons, they will definitely hide. Even if you go out now, you won't be able to help. Cannonballs don't have long eyes, we can't stop them at all, I believe *** will bless their ......"

Encountering a naval artillery attack, Eva's garrison officer Ozgül immediately ordered: "Organize a counterattack for me immediately, and we can't let the enemy go on so recklessly." ”

In this war, the Ottoman Empire also prepared for more than half a year, purchasing a lot of artillery from Britain and France, as a key defense port, and there were hundreds of guns distributed in Awagan.

Of course, the number of heavy artillery pieces that can really play a role is only about 30. The other artillery is no longer a big threat to the ironclad.

This is not a small number, there are so many Ottoman port cities, and Ava can get so many artillery, and the importance can be seen to be extraordinary.

Under normal circumstances, no one would bombard a warship with a shore gun, which is a very stupid choice. The shore artillery targets are small, and they can be stabilized and focused on land, and it is definitely the warships that suffer losses in the bombardment.

Of course, there are exceptions. Weapons and equipment and the quality of soldiers are also key factors affecting the hit rate. It is not surprising that they lost to warships in the confrontation, but they are very few.

"Yes, General!"

As soon as the voice fell, several young officers hurried forward, picked up the phone in the command room and shouted. Without exception, these telephones are not as tall as a dial pad, and they all rely on manual wiring to make calls.

If one looks closely at the German instructions on the phone base, they will notice these products, along with Austria of origin.

It's all a minor problem, and now the technology is limited, and it is impossible to listen in remotely, and no matter who produces these calls, there is no backdoor.

On the battlefield, practicality is the most important, and most of the telephone equipment on the international market is exported from Austria, and the Sudanese government has no qualifications to be picky.

Don't look at the simplicity of these equipment, in fact, "the slightest mistake in production will be a thousand miles". With the industrial technology of the Ottoman Empire, the communication equipment produced could not be used at all.

As one order after another was issued, the shore artillery that had been waiting for a long time also began to wield, and the deafening sound of artillery continued to sound.

On a warship about two or three nautical miles away, a burly middle-aged officer was standing on a splint, holding a telescope and looking into the distance. (1 nautical mile = 1.852 km)

The guard dutifully reminded: "General, it is dangerous here, you better go to the observation room!" ”

The middle-aged man laughed: "If the enemy can hit this distance, it means that God wants to summon me in advance." ”

Hit? Most guns simply can't shoot this far, and a few guns with this range can't aim at this distance.

The Austrian navy attacked Ava, it was completely indiscriminate, there was no need to aim at all, just adjust to the maximum range and let the shells fly as far as possible.

If you want to get results, you can't help but close the distance again. The closest warship to Ava at the moment also maintains a distance of two nautical miles.

This distance is just right, which can ensure that the ship's guns can shoot shells into the city, and can also ensure the safety of the warship.

Looking at the watch in his hand, the middle-aged officer said to himself: "They should also come, if they don't come, Lao Tzu will have to do it himself." ”

This is not the first time that a port city has been shelled, and since the shelling of Ottoman Port began on 5 April, the Austrian Navy has been conducting daily live-fire training in several port cities.

That's right, it's live-fire training. The whole navy used this as a training, using the Ottomans as targets to train the gunners to hit the ball.

didn't wait long, colorful clouds floated in the sky, and the middle-aged officer frowned: "Order the fleet to close the distance by 1 nautical mile and pay attention to the direction of the wind." ”

In order to create opportunities for the Air Force, this time they had to act as a decoy. If we don't create enough pressure, how can we force out all the enemy's shore artillery fire?

Sure enough, as the Austrian navy approached, the sound of artillery fire became denser, and in order to achieve a beautiful result, Özgül could no longer care about hiding it, and all the firepower of the defenders was opened.

Behind the two inconspicuous shore guns, the young officer Saltus Pasha shouted excitedly: "Aim and shoot me, catch and hit the warship, those little ones, can you hit it!" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Saltus-Pasha was not an ordinary aristocratic officer waiting for death, as a rising star of the Ottoman Empire, he was an international student at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in France.

Had it not been for the sudden outbreak of war, he would have continued his studies in France. There is no way, the Sudanese government can only work desperately at the critical moment of life and death, and it will be recalled in advance regardless of whether it has graduated or not.

Anyway, after studying outside for a few years, I came into contact with the most advanced military concepts in the world today, and my theoretical knowledge is much stronger than that of the domestic turtle aristocratic officers.

Under normal circumstances, a high-achieving student like Saltus Pasha should go to the headquarters, and no matter how bad it is, he will go to the division headquarters. It's a pity that just after being assigned to Ava, Saltus Pasha offended people.

As soon as he arrived, he sprayed Ava's shore artillery deployment uselessly, and proposed a modification plan. In the face of the war, the old and crippled villains were only a minority, the revised plan was passed, and Saltus Pasha was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

Satus Pasha, who offended people, was soon sent to the front-line troops for training. In fact, it is to guard the shore artillery, if it were not for the start of the war, it is estimated that the second half of his life would be over.

One of the soldiers exclaimed, "Lieutenant Colonel, which big bird in the sky is here again." ”

Dissatisfied with the shouting of the soldiers, Lieutenant Colonel Saltus-Pasha corrected: "That's an airship, not a big bird." ”

The soldier hurriedly remedied: "Yes, airship." Hey, something has fallen, could it be that it's throwing waste paper again? ”

To the illiterate big-headed soldiers, there was little difference between the leaflets thrown by Austria and the waste paper. The use of leaflets to cause panic and induce local people to flee was unsuccessful.

The well-informed Saltus Pasha had already reacted, how could it take so many airships to throw leaflets? One is enough, there is no need to dispatch more than twenty ships at a time.

"It's not a bomb, find a place to hide!"

With that, Saltus Pasha ran away. It's no wonder that he was flustered, no one had ever experienced this wave, and being able to judge the bomb at the first time meant that his knowledge level was high.

How do you dodge the bombing, it's not written in the books? Knowing how to run is enough to prove that his reflexes are flexible. If the enemy wants to bomb, it must be coming at the artillery, and the security of staying away from the battery will naturally increase.

However, it was all too late, and before he had even run a few steps, bombs fell from the sky, and the fort was taken care of.

After the roaring explosion, only a mess remained. Fleeing, Saltus Pasha was tossed to the ground by the wave of air and had two shrapnel stuck in his arms.

Enduring the pain, he raised his head and looked at the few soldiers who remained in place, and they could no longer see the human form clearly, leaving only a crater on the ground, and a vague ...... (omitted some words)

Sartus Pasha couldn't care about the cannon anymore, and he got up and continued to run through the pain, he just wanted to stay away from the battery now.

The bombardment that fell from the sky made many people fall into a state of confusion. It's more than they can handle, and they don't know how to deal with it.

The fort was designed only to deal with enemies at sea, but no one thought of defending against enemies in the sky.

Anti-aircraft fire does not exist, the first large-scale bombing in the history of mankind, who would not know the prophet?

No matter how chaotic the ground is, the bombs in the sky are constantly pouring down on the ground, and as long as they find a suspicious target, they will drop the bomb directly.

In the headquarters of the Ava garrison, Major General Ozgül was like an ant on a hot pot, stamping his feet in a hurry, completely unsure of what to do.

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