Mercenary’s War
Chapter 1075 - 1075 One Thousand and Fifty-Eight The Miracle Brought by the Postman

1075: Chapter One Thousand and Fifty-Eight: The Miracle Brought by the Postman 1075: Chapter One Thousand and Fifty-Eight: The Miracle Brought by the Postman Gao Yang had never been slapped in his life, but to his surprise, Number Thirteen greeted him with two heavy slaps, which really frustrated Gao Yang.

Getting slapped was bad enough, but having to thank Number Thirteen added to his frustration.

Thus, after shifting his gaze back to the scope, Gao Yang couldn’t help but say, “Number Thirteen, you bastard, I’ll remember this.”

Number Thirteen calmly responded, “You asked me to take measures to calm you down immediately.

Mere pain was clearly not enough, and slapping is the least costly and most effective method to calm someone down.

I’ve told you the reason; the pain from a slap is one thing, but it’s mainly the humiliation that quickly cools you down.”

Gao Yang grimaced as he listened, although he admitted to himself that after being slapped, he indeed felt much calmer.

“Just you wait, be careful not to give me a chance to calm you down.”

Number Thirteen was unfazed by Gao Yang’s threats and confidently smiled, “I might have my moments of excitement, but the probability that I’ll need someone else to calm me down is zero.”

“The arrow has been shot!”

Taylor suddenly interjected, putting an end to the idle chat between Gao Yang and Number Thirteen.

“The arrow has been shot” meant that the airplane had released the bombs, and Gao Yang immediately focused all his attention on the building.

“Sea Eagle Two!

Fire two missiles at once, drop the bombs now!”

As soon as Sea Eagle One dropped the Laser-Guided Bomb, Taylor immediately ordered the second aircraft to drop its bombs.

The principle of a Laser-Guided Bomb is not complex; after the targeting laser hits the objective and produces diffuse reflection, the Seeker Head of the Laser-Guided Bomb captures the reflected light of sufficient intensity, and then the Laser-Guided Bomb adjusts its course to accurately hit the laser-targeted objective.

However, there’s a problem with laser guidance; the laser is highly directional with a narrow beam, which can precisely illuminate the target, thus making the precision of Laser-Guided Bombs very high.

But clouds, rain, fog, especially dust and smoke can absorb the laser beam, affecting the use of Laser-Guided Bombs.

For the buildings Taylor intended to destroy, he had two targets and four Laser-Guided Bombs.

If Taylor pointed the laser beam at one building and guided two bombs to it, it would be very easy, but guiding four bombs to hit two buildings at the same time was very difficult, extremely hard.

The reason is simple; after the Laser-Guided Bomb hits one building and explodes, it creates a heavy cloud of dust and smoke that completely blocks the laser beam, preventing Taylor from guiding the missile to the second building within a short time.

If it took too long, people in the second building would leave.

By the time the dust cleared enough for a second bombing, it would already be too late.

But Taylor is an expert, trained over a long period with the support of the United States Air Force, the world’s most luxurious air force.

He has combat experience from using guided bombs as if they were regular bombs, just like a sniper needs vast amounts of bullets.

Undoubtedly, Taylor is an expert, and therefore he has his methods to direct four bombs to hit two targets that are close to each other.

Taylor looked tense, murmuring something under his breath that Gao Yang could barely make out, but it sounded like he was counting.

At the countdown of three, Gao Yang heard it clearly, and at this moment, Taylor suddenly twisted the laser transmitter, aiming the thin laser beam onto another building nearby.

Without any warning, a building suddenly resonated, with two consecutive explosions occurring in the same building, followed by two more explosions in quick succession, occurring in the adjacent building.

Taylor did it.

By guiding four Laser-Guided Bombs to hit two nearby targets simultaneously, the principle is actually simple: launch four bombs with a very slight time difference, within a certain range they capture the scattered light beam, all four bombs fly towards the same indicated point, and when the bombs reach a distance where it’s too late to adjust their fins, suddenly change the direction of the laser beam.

At that point, the bombs that no longer have sufficient distance will hit the original target, while the latter two bombs dropped have enough distance to adjust their direction, and then hit the newly indicated target.

The principle is very simple, Taylor’s actions look simple too, but behind the simplicity, ha, the difficulty is unimaginable.

The distance between the plane dropping the bomb and the target, the flight time of the bomb, the time difference between the two sets of four bombs when hitting the ground, how much the bombs need to change direction and how long they need to adjust, and many other factors, all summed up into one point – changing the direction of the laser transmitter at the right moment is not something a mere mortal could achieve.

The principle of shooting is simple, very few can reach the level of Gao Yang; the principle of a mortar is also simple, very few can reach the level of Tommy; similarly, the principle of guiding Laser-Guided Bombs is simple, very few can do what Taylor does.

Many things seem simple, but they are not so easy to accomplish well; using a laser transmitter to target without moving is a simple ground guidance job, but to achieve what Taylor does, substituting human brain for a computer, is difficult.

Gao Yang knew what Taylor would do, because before the operation, Taylor had explained it in detail to him, otherwise Gao Yang would not have approved the plan to guide four bombs to bombard two targets simultaneously.

Taylor said he could do it, Gao Yang trusted Taylor, so he believed Taylor really could do it, but Gao Yang’s knowledge made him unable to believe that Taylor could really achieve it – this extreme trust in a person while doubting the feasibility of something, in fact, is not contradictory.

Before the dust from the first exploded building had spread, Gao Yang had already seen a huge fireball from the second building being bombed; he saw it very clearly, both buildings were definitely bombed accurately.

Only when he saw with his own eyes Taylor completing this miraculous work in front of him, Gao Yang could fully believe that Taylor really did it.

“Cargo delivered, accurately and precisely!”

Taylor, clenching his fists and gritting his teeth, said softly, showing his excitement.

Always using ‘cargo’ to refer to Laser-Guided Bombs, such a strong personal style, no wonder he’s called Postman; while Gao Yang couldn’t help but complain inwardly, he grabbed the wireless telephone on Taylor’s body and spoke firmly, “First phase target perfectly achieved, immediately proceed to the second phase of operation, repeat, immediately proceed to the second phase of operation, over.”

While Gao Yang was speaking, he had already heard the roar of helicopters; he looked up and could see two attack helicopters appearing in the expected positions.

The timing between different models arriving at the battlefield was perfectly coordinated.

This is a big operation where coordination in combat is very important; there are many helicopters and the noise is loud, if the helicopters had attracted the enemy’s attention before the Laser-Guided Bombs hit, it would have been troublesome.

The result satisfied Gao Yang, the timing of each aircraft arriving was very well coordinated; just when the bombs had just hit the ground, the air-drop could begin.(To be continued.

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