Chapter 273: This earth‑penetrating bomb is incredibly overpowered!

Ten thousand meters altitude.

He Zhiqiang lay prone in the aircraft nose, eyes glued to the sight, watching the scenery below constantly shift.

Although Qin Miao had said aiming wasn't needed—just roughly dropping it would do—he remained very serious, selecting what he deemed appropriate data based on the bomb's appearance and his own experience, setting it into his sight, and then, following the results of these days' hard training, he began to enter the bombing route.

At this moment, he was the commander of the entire aircraft, and even if flying in formation, he would still be the formation's commander!

During WWII, the sight of such bomber formations flying thick and dense must have been incredibly spectacular—too bad that era is gone!

The aircraft is huge, with low survival odds and poor penetration capability; the H-6 is nearly phased out. For them, this situation is hardest to accept, so… upon hearing they would use the H-6 to drop a nine‑ton bomb, they all volunteered eagerly—this is the H-6's chance to turn things around!

No other aircraft could drop a nine‑ton bomb!

To be honest, when they saw the bomb they were a bit disappointed, but… they trusted Ha Gong Da, a military‑industrial university capable of creating miracles!

"Attention, start the bombing countdown! Ten, nine… one, release the bomb!"

He Zhiqiang spoke while pressing the bomb‑release button beside the sight.

Clang!

A huge roar came, and then the whole fuselage lightened—after all, a nine‑ton bomb had dropped, so it naturally felt lighter.

"Attention, turn into a loiter!" shouted Division Commander Li.

Their mission wasn't over; they would continue to stay in this airspace, the bomb‑aimer in the nose having to use the precise bombing sight to keep tracking the bomb's fall trajectory until it finally hit the ground!

He Zhiqiang's eyes continued to fixate on the sight, his field of view firmly capturing that falling bomb…

The bomb was almost horizontal, gliding forward in the sky; judging by experience, the drag was lower than expected—that is… it would hit ahead of the target?

Wait!

He Zhiqiang's eyes widened—what had he seen?

The bomb's trajectory just now… had it turned in mid‑air?

How could that be possible!

A falling bomb is essentially a near‑parabolic motion; a nine‑ton lump of iron, even crosswinds can be ignored—so how could it possibly turn?

Wait, it turned again!

This time He Zhiqiang saw clearly that the bomb's tail fins were not fixed but movable.

This… this isn't a bomb at all—it's clearly a missile!

But… who is controlling it?

On the ground.

The observation post was also watching the sky; the bomb was rapidly approaching, and according to his experience it should fly past the target—but… the bomb's trajectory began to adjust!

Once, twice, three times…

After several adjustments, the bomb's impact point increasingly matched the target!

The observation post was stunned—at the national firing range, seeing a bomb turn for the first time! Even a ground‑to‑ground missile, once reduced to just its warhead, flies purely by inertia.

What the heck is this bomb?

Wait! The bomb changed its attitude!

At the critical moment, the bomb shifted from its original horizontal state to an almost vertical dive!

That sharp warhead plunged straight down at the target recently constructed by the engineering troops; that piercing whistle also entered the observation post's ears—at this moment… he even felt a sense of apocalypse.

Clang!

The warhead slammed into the reinforced‑concrete fortification; at Mach 3.5 its immense kinetic energy instantly shattered the concrete above and snapped the rebar along the way…

Concrete fragments flew outward in a cone, while the impact sent huge vibrations through the ground; the observation post felt his body jolt, nearly toppling over.

A nine‑ton behemoth falling from ten‑kilometer altitude is absolutely equivalent to a massive meteorite impact—just that impact energy alone would…

The observation post continued watching, seeing fragments still flying up, while the upper half of the concrete fortification… had actually collapsed?

Above lay a ten‑meter‑thick reinforced‑concrete layer, also the required firepower for the southern side—now…

This nine‑ton behemoth obviously still had kinetic energy, continuing to drill downward!

The ten‑meter‑thick reinforced‑concrete layer below also deformed and scattered under the violent impact…

The penetration depth appears to be about twenty meters—and this is specially reinforced concrete; if it were ordinary… it would likely have gone thirty meters or more deep!

Boom!

The time‑delay fuse finally triggered, and amidst the huge explosion a fireball rose!

The casing weighed five to six tons, with about two tons of explosive packed inside; the blast's power was even more shocking—countless fragments flew, and the observation post dared not look, curling into his shelter while listening to the continuous impact sounds outside.

Finally the noise ceased; he peered out from his shelter and gazed at the distant bombed target.

What about the target?

It's been completely blown to pieces!

A total of twenty meters of reinforced‑concrete fortifications couldn't withstand a single strike of this earth‑penetrating bomb—it was utterly destroyed!

In the sky, aboard the H‑6 bomber, He Zhiqiang was also stunned.

Even six tons of explosives wouldn't necessarily achieve this effect.

The sturdy fortifications vanished, fragments exploding outward to form a ring‑shaped hill, just like a meteorite impact.

Above the fortifications, with the explosion, thick smoke billowed up, forming a mushroom cloud that seemed hardly smaller than a nuclear bomb's.

The H‑6 continued to circle; soon the smoke cleared, revealing a huge crater blown into the ground—at least another ten meters or so deep before detonation!

"My goodness, I've never seen such a weapon!" exclaimed He Zhiqiang.

Dropped from ten‑kilometer altitude, it hit precisely and could utterly destroy twenty‑meter‑thick reinforced‑concrete fortifications—this… probably no such weapon exists anywhere in the world!

From today onward, no sturdy underground works are safe! Ordinary air‑raid shelters, merely three‑to‑five‑meter‑thick reinforced concrete, and even military bases lack more than ten meters of protection.

Even Pyongyang's subway, a hundred meters deep, could certainly be pierced—after all, that's just ordinary soil, not all reinforced concrete.

"This is still a ten‑kilometer‑high drop; if released from fifteen or even twenty kilometers up, the penetration depth could increase further." Division Commander Li also lamented: "No wonder they don't let us fly too low, but flying high worsens accuracy, and I don't know what method guides it. In short…"

Division Commander Li glanced down again, saying: "This Earth-Penetrating Bomb is very heaven-defying!"