The place where the pistol shooting was trained was arranged in the castle vestibule. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

All witches, including Sylvie, who were selected into the scout, were given a revolver.

After spending two days getting everyone familiar with and mastering the position of holding a gun, Roland entered the training into a live-fire session. The main content is divided into 10-meter aiming shooting and 5-meter rapid fire to deal with both prepared enemy and surprise attacks.

The witches behaved well when they practiced with guns, and when they came to shoot, they showed their stuff.

Especially when the deafening gunshots rang out, the first thing most people did was to plug their ears and see the nightingale raise their eyebrows.

Except for Anna.

I saw her holding the gun in both hands and not moving, pulling the trigger continuously, completely ignoring the sound of gunfire and gunsmoke. Regardless of the accuracy, this action alone is done neatly.

Roland was secretly surprised, but as a large-caliber revolver, even with black powder bullets, it had a strong recoil, so why could her arm not move in continuous fire?

Curiously, he walked behind the other and saw two black flames clinging to the grip, holding it firmly in the air, and Anna was only in a false grip posture, not touching the pistol at all. After patting her on the shoulder, she pulled out the black fire from her ear as an earbud and praised me with a quick expression, "What's the matter, I hit the target all!"

Roland couldn't laugh or cry, so he had to announce loudly: "No one is allowed to use the ability to assist in practice!".

"Eh, why?"

"Wouldn't it be a scramble if you encounter an enemy with the Stone of Divine Punishment," Roland sighed and reached out to help Anna plug her ears, "so you won't be afraid." ”

"Hmm!" she smiled, swapping her bullets and raising her gun again.

"Come, Maisie, I need to plug my ears too," Lightning exclaimed enviously.

"Goh?" the latter gestured to the gun in his hand.

"You can't shoot anyway after you become a bird," the little girl winked, "you help me block it first, and I'll help you block it later." ”

"Goo!"

The other witches in the castle were also attracted by the continuous gunfire, and gradually gathered in the castle vestibule, and many of them showed eager expressions. By the end of the day, almost everyone had come up to experience the operation of the hot weapon.

Seeing a group of colorful women fiddling with the weapons in their hands with high spirits, Roland sighed in his heart.

To this day, he remembers what it was like when he first met each witch.

Anna's hands and feet used to be as thin as a bamboo pole, her eyes were lifeless, and her face was always an expression;

There is always a hint of a dark cloud between the nightingale's eyebrows, and the smile has nothing to do with emotions, or it is precisely to hide his emotions that he always puts a playful smile on the corner of his mouth;

and Wendy's exhaustion that she can't hide after her soft voice, Lily, who is as guarded as a cat, when Leaf resigns herself to her fate and confusion when she makes a desperate bet on the future;

There are also lightning bolts, mystery moons, hummingbirds, scrolls, and more......

After experiencing oppression, framing, and hunting, it is a kind of luck to survive, and there is no time to think about where you will go. Now, they're very different.

The witches all exude a unique charm, their eyes sparkle brightly, and the future is no longer uncertain for them - they have the energy to pursue something other than to live, something as good as life.

And every time he saw the gratitude and trust that the witches showed when they looked at him, Roland's heart felt full of strength.

......

After lunch, it was his turn in the afternoon to practice high-altitude throwing for the fall offensive, and the number of witches involved in the exercise was reduced by half, leaving only Anna, Wendy, and Lightning.

This is also the minimum number of people required to complete the air attack.

The timing of the attack at the beginning of the second month of autumn was the result of Roland's deliberate efforts, and if it was too short, he would not have been able to prepare for everything, and if it was too late, it would not have served the purpose of deterring Tifeco's troops, as long as he insisted on launching a large-scale assault on the western frontier and feeding the conscripted civilians with medicine, the air raid would not have the desired effect.

Therefore, the autumn offensive must be launched before he has completely completed his call-up.

In order to fulfill his promise, Roland planned to drop a 250-kilogram bomb directly above the Grey Keep Palace. The bomb, which weighs five nightingales, will be dropped from a height of 2,000 meters and will be detonated inside the palace by piercing the dome of the palace.

As the hot air balloon slowly rises into the air, a huge gondola rises into the sky with a solid simulated bomb - since Roland is also riding in the gondola, this solid iron bomb is one size smaller, weighing only about four nightingales. However, its shape is exactly the same as that of the aerial bomb to be put into actual combat in the future, with a streamlined shell with a thick front and a thin back, with a stable tail and a parachute at the end, which can ensure that it is always perpendicular to the ground when falling, and control its maximum landing speed.

The throwing basket was also specially modified with an iron bracket so that the bomb stood vertically in the center of the basket, with half of the basket sticking out of the bottom. As long as the valve is pulled up and the hook mechanism is released, the bomb will break away from the gondola and fall straight down.

As the height continued to rise, the frontier town was soon reduced to a piece the size of a fingernail, and the Chishui River turned into a silver ribbon.

"It's the first time I've stood on such a high point," Wendy looked out the lookout window, "and it feels like the whole Westside has become cramped." ”

"Because it's small," Roland chuckled, "look at the wilderness to the north, that's where we should go." ”

"Do you want to go any further? I'm almost out of sight," Lightning shouted from outside the basket.

"That's pretty much it," he said, nodding to Anna, and then gesturing to the little girl to prepare.

Although it is impossible to tell how far from the ground at this point, there should always be more than a thousand meters - it is perfectly safe to attack at this altitude, and the enemy will not be able to observe the movement of the hot air balloon.

However, the airdrop distance of more than 1,000 meters means that the hit depends entirely on fate, and if you want to accurately hit the target, this bomb must have a guidance system.

And the little girl Lightning will take on this task.

"Drop the bomb," Roland ordered.

Wendy pulls the valve and drops the bomb, sending the air into the gondola. Anna seals the throwing hole with the cover she had prepared, and tightens the mounting bracket – a process that has been practiced repeatedly on land, and the two of them seem to work together perfectly.

"Will she be able to hit the target?" asked Wendy, leaning against the window.

"We'll have to wait until we go down to find out," Roland shrugged.

During the bomb's fall, lightning will fall at the same speed as it and apply a horizontal thrust to it, allowing the bomb to change its trajectory freely, thus turning it into a guided bomb. When it is about to approach the target, the tail mechanism is pulled by lightning to separate the parachute from the projectile 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 becomes a guarantee of precise control of the landing point.

All that's left is to keep practicing the process. (To be continued.) )