Chapter 375: Airship Nemesis (First update, please subscribe)

What about for the sake of friendship? That's just bullshit.

The French were terrified.

I was scared to death by the powerful combat capability displayed by the airship.

The kind that causes vomiting and diarrhea!

So they went straight to a toast to friendship.

When you toast to someone, you are actually sending a signal - you have money!

Zhu Xianhai, who was far away in Buenos Aires, just smiled when he learned about what happened to General Michel and his group.

"Let them have a look first. As for the price of the airship, let's just follow the price originally approved. By the way, how is the precision bombing going now? Can it hit the warship?"

Friendship is friendship, and interests are interests. The French say they have a way, but when it comes to interests, they never make any concessions.

The same is true for Nanhua.

The purpose of exporting airships is to earn a little more profit, and it is a monopoly business at present. There is nothing wrong with setting a higher price.

Besides, the French Empire was a wealthy country. In the Franco-Prussian War the following year, they paid 5 billion gold francs in compensation!

Such a huge sum of money cannot be compared even to the Qing Dynasty, which "measures the material resources of China and pleases all countries."

If you meet such a rich man, how can you be worthy of your ancestors if you don't cut him hard?

"It's not very accurate yet. Many of them are near misses."

"It's a pity, but a near miss is fine. If there's a chance, we can show it to the French. A near miss can also sink a warship."

If the bombing accuracy is not enough, then make up for it with quantity.

After the airship bombing of Buenos Aires, the advertisement had been put out. It was not enough to rely on hearsay alone. If you wanted to make Europeans believe that airships were the future, you had to demonstrate their power.

If you want to show your power, bombing warships is definitely the best choice. For the French, if they find that airships can be blown up into warships, they will definitely purchase a large number of airships.

Just like in another world, when the torpedo just came out, the French even bet on it. They built a large number of torpedo boats, trying to use them to undermine the British naval advantage.

The French are the typical people who will try anything they can get when desperate. As long as any weapon can threaten the British Navy and help them gain advantage at sea, they will definitely invest a lot of energy and financial resources in this weapon without hesitation.

Airships also have this potential, and it certainly looks more powerful than before!

"Marshal, the Star Airship Company has designed a new airship. It is 115 meters long and 2.5 times the volume of the current airship. It is expected to carry 7,000 kilograms of weapons. In addition, it uses a new engine with a power of up to 160 horsepower, which is the most powerful gasoline engine currently. Its speed is up to 80 kilometers and its range can reach 3,000 kilometers. Marshal, it will definitely be the future king of the sky..."

Li Du, whose "highest education" was just a "student", has always been curious about science. When he was in the gold mine, he was curious about the principles of the steam engine. Later, he taught himself mechanics in the army. But when he first came into contact with a spaceship, he was completely attracted by it that could fly into the sky. He was already the commander of the artillery regiment at that time, and he even gave up the opportunity for promotion and asked to join the airship unit.

As the first commander of the airship unit, Li Du has always believed in Sun Tzu's Art of War: "Those who are good at attacking move above the nine heavens." While studying new tactics and weapons with the officers of the airship unit, he also constantly put forward more demands to the spacecraft company.

In fact, his requirements are very simple. He believes that larger, faster, and more ammunition-carrying airships are the future of airships.

The newly designed spacecraft obviously meets his goal. Of course, Li Du has another ambition in his heart - he hopes to build a larger airship.

How big is it?

Li Du had never thought about it, but in terms of carrying capacity, a few tons or even more than ten tons would not be enough for him. At least he could carry twenty or thirty tons of bombs!

It only takes a few airships to destroy a city!

That is the real attacker who moves “above the nine heavens”!

"7,000 kilograms! That's really not small, but large airships can definitely be built a little bigger!"

Zhu Xianhai said with a smile.

"As we sell airships to the French, we can be sure that once they understand the principles of airships, a spaceship competition will surely begin around the world. Britain, France and other European countries will surely rush to build giant airships. We can stimulate them to build even bigger airships!"

The Marshal's words made Li Du's expression a little complicated. In fact, as the chief officer of the airship unit, he had always been opposed to the sale of airships, even until now.

"Marshal, when we sell spaceships to outsiders, we are not only selling spaceships, but also many of our technologies. These technologies... those foreigners will definitely not care about patents or anything like that. They will definitely copy our airships. Losing our air superiority is not a good thing for us. After all, the sky is ours now, and we can attack whoever we want!"

In the sky, Nanhua is the real king!

This war is a clear proof that the Argentines on the ground can only passively take the beating and have no power to fight back. If they sell airships to foreigners, wouldn't that be like handing over their own trump card?

"Our monopoly won't last long!"

Zhu Xianhai walked to the desk and looked through the documents while talking.

"Even if we can monopolize it for three to five years, it can't stop Europeans from owning their own airships. Selling it to them now is not just for money, but also to win a good external environment..."

This is certainly not the most important thing. What is important?

It’s to distort the Europeans’ technology tree!

The purpose is to make those European guys bet on airships, thus forming a huge interest group, and then what? This group will lead European aviation technology down a wrong path.

It would be better to lead them down a path of no return where they will go on blindly until darkness falls.

"As for our safety..."

Zhu Xianhai found a folder, unfolded it and said.

"This is a small airship that I have conceived."

"A small airship?"

Looking at the blueprint drawn by the Marshal, Li Du discovered that although this airship was small, its structure seemed to be more advanced, with the small pod and the airbag integrated into one.

"This small airship uses a fully enclosed pod that is directly connected to the airbag and is driven by two engines hanging on the outside of the pod. This makes it faster, and its engine is a ducted engine that can rotate within a certain angle, which makes it easier to control the flight direction and altitude. In other words, it is more maneuverable and faster. Oh, right..."

After turning the page, Zhu Xianhai pointed at the rotary machine gun in front of the cabin and said.

"I call it a 'combat airship'. Well, it can also be called a 'destroyer'. It is an airship specially used for air combat. It carries a 13mm Gatling machine gun in its cabin. Unlike ordinary machine guns, it is driven by an electric motor. Its machine gun has a very fast firing rate of about 4,000 rounds. At the same time, its bullets are also special, specially used to deal with airships. Ordinary bullets will only make a few holes in the airbag, and at most hydrogen will leak out, which will at most affect the airship's ceiling. The airship can fly and land in a safe area at the same time. However, the bullets used by this machine gun can ignite hydrogen. Do you know what happens when hydrogen is ignited?"

What happens when hydrogen is ignited?

Li Du was completely dumbfounded, how could he not know?

Hydrogen will ignite as soon as it sees a spark, and then it will burn or even explode! For this reason, it is absolutely forbidden to use open flames on airships.

But what about now?

The Marshal has come up with a bullet that can ignite hydrogen. What kind of heavy damage will this bullet bring to the airship troops?

It must be devastating!

At this moment, in his mind, there appeared a lot of airships that could be called giants in the sky turning into huge fireballs in front of the "combat airship".

"Ah... Marshal, this, this——"

After hesitating for a long time, Li Du spoke.

"I think it's better not to manufacture this kind of combat airship. After all, we have no way to guarantee it. Those Westerners won't be able to copy this kind of airship, right? Once they have this kind of combat airship, it will be a huge threat to us."

It is better not to equip any combat airship than to allow a weapon to threaten the existence of the airship. This is Li Du’s simplest idea.

Faced with his idea, Zhu Xianhai just smiled.

"There is definitely a threat to us. But since we want to sell the airship, we must have a killer weapon in our hands. Otherwise, how can we defeat the enemy?"

Want to play airship.

Very simple, this combat airship is just one of the weapons. When the electric Gatling gun technology matures, it is entirely possible to develop an anti-aircraft gun based on it.

Not to mention airships, even airplanes can be easily shot down from the sky.

"Of course, we must keep this weapon secret. What is our purpose? It is to make everyone believe that airships are the real future."

Then what?

Of course, let those countries place all their bets on airships. When the war comes, they will discover the truest reality of the human world.

That was the huge fleet of airships they had built with the national treasury. It was just a torch in the sky. What kind of expression would they have when the airships they had placed high hopes on were ignited one after another?

As Europeans often say - God can testify.

All this work in vain!

(End of this chapter)