Chapter 806: Epic Expedition (3rd update, please subscribe)

“Buzz…Buzz”

In the comprehensive training base in the southeast of Yingtian, the roar of dozens of engines from more than 20 airships echoed throughout the entire training base, and people on the ground all looked up at these huge airships.

Below the airship, hundreds of Army Commandos were getting ready. Although this was not their first time riding on an airship, it was their first time to conduct an airborne operation on an airship.

"Attention! Zoom in closer...Yes!"

As a cinematographer of the Propaganda Department of the General Staff, Song Pingzhi has photographed military training and exercises countless times, but none of them is as important as this one. This time he will use his camera to record the first airdrop in human history. At this time, Song Zhiping and several photographers from the Propaganda Department are using their cameras and still cameras to record this epic expedition.

The expedition was not large in scale, with 26 airships transporting more than 500 soldiers to carry out airborne operations.

This was definitely an epic operation.

It created so many world firsts... the first airborne combat, the first intercontinental airborne combat, the first...

Almost everything you can think of can be reflected in this operation.

What does it mean that debut is the peak? This means that debut is the peak.

The first creation created an unsurpassed history.

"Brothers! See you in Africa!"

After saying these words to his brothers, Wang Kunlun saluted with his hand and grinned. The photographer pressed the shutter and captured the scene of them about to board the boat.

This picture has since become a classic, and even a century and a half later, this photo is still being quoted frequently.

This is history.

It is not only a new chapter in the history of world war, but also a new chapter in the history of mankind!

"Okay! Let's go!"

Wang Kunlun, with a stern face, gave orders. At this time, more than 500 officers and soldiers of the commando team had entered the airship through the hatch.

“I wish you success!”

Song Pingzhi, who was in the cabin with a camera, looked at the people on the ground waving their hands after the airship slowly took off. They waved their arms and shouted blessings loudly. Amid the blessings of the people, the airship slowly rose to a high altitude. At the same time, the huge airship formation began to accelerate and head eastward, and soon they entered the sky over the Atlantic Ocean.

After stabilizing the spacecraft and handing over control to several other pilots, Wang Feihu left the cockpit and went to the bomb bay, which had now become a transport bay.

As soon as he entered the transport cabin, Wang Feihu saw the elite officers and soldiers of the sudden team sitting in the cabin, leaning on each other. Seeing them wiping the frost on the porthole and looking down at the Earth King Kunlun, he walked over and said.

"Captain Wang, let the brothers rest for a while. We still have a long way to go! It will take almost two days and two nights. There is boiled water and dry food on the boat. Let the brothers make do with this until it's time to eat!"

"They are all resting there. Captain Wang is very thoughtful!"

Wang Kunlun grinned.

"Haha! Captain. I want to ask, at such a long distance, how can you guarantee that you won't go off the track? I just looked out the window, and there was nothing but sea outside, with no landmarks at all."

As a commander of ground forces, King Kunlun, who was staying on the airship, felt a little strange about how the airship could fly thousands of kilometers away without getting lost on the way.

"This is simple. In fact, there is no difference between flying an airship and sailing on the sea. The pilot uses a sextant and a clock to measure the latitude and longitude of the airship, and then marks the course on the map. Well, if you think of the airship as a spaceship, it will be clear. There is no big difference. The only difference is that one is sailing on the sea, and the other is sailing on the sea of ​​clouds."

Although they say so, whether sailing on the sea or on the sea of ​​clouds, there are certain risks. Of course, it is not a problem of losing the way, but because the airship itself has poor wind resistance. When a ship encounters a strong wind at sea, it may be able to rely on the structure of the ship to resist the strong wind, but the airship cannot. The airship uses thin rubberized cloth and internal ropes to maintain its strength. Encountering strong winds may cause the airbag to rupture. If that happens, the people on the airship will be dead.

Although we are not encountering strong winds now, who knows if we will be so lucky next time?

No one knows, after all, this voyage is across the ocean. On the sea, there are always various possibilities.

Because of this, every time he crossed the ocean, Wang Feihu would pray to the Buddha and Guanyin Bodhisattva for protection, but he didn't know if Guanyin Bodhisattva in the South China Sea could protect him in the Atlantic Ocean...

From day to night, and then to sunrise, the soldiers welcomed the sunrise in the airship. Although it was the first time for a long-distance flight on an airship, the soldiers quickly learned the "living" skills on the airship, such as urinating and defecating. And every time they urinated or defecated, they would always laugh and discuss whether it would become a bomb falling on some unlucky guy.

In the narrow airship, there were only such entertainments. Some soldiers were dismantling and cleaning rifle bolts again and again. Everyone was finding work to do to pass the time.

Finally, after another sunrise, when the soldiers began to enjoy their not-so-rich breakfast - a few compressed biscuits, the white waves of the coastline and the yellow African land came into their sight. Wang Feihu shouted to the cabin behind him.

“We’re in Africa!”

Time will record this moment. Song Pingzhi used a camera to record the coastline of Africa. They finally arrived at this wild continent.

"It is now 9:13 am on September 11th, the sixth year of Shengde. The Third Regiment of the Ming Dynasty's Aerial Force is transporting an army commando team to the skies above Africa..."

When Wang Feihu recorded this time in the flight log, everyone on the airship looked out the window at the ground, and the ground was all yellow.

“It seems like it’s all desert!”

The soldiers are no strangers to the desert. They have been trained in the desert area on the border between northern Shanxi and Peru. As army commandos, they need to adapt to combat training in various terrain types.

This is indeed a desert - the Namib Desert, a dry area on the Atlantic coast of southwestern Africa. The desert extends 2,100 kilometers along the Atlantic coast of southwestern Africa. The widest part of the desert is 160 kilometers.

When the airship arrived over the desert, the cold night air compressed the hydrogen and they flew at a very low altitude. When they arrived over the desert, the airship was only flying in the air less than 200 meters above the desert.

Looking at the desert from the air, they could not only clearly see the oasis in the desert, but even herds of elephants and a fiery red lake. When the airship roared over, the red color seemed to be startled and suddenly flew up. It was a flamingo. Tens of thousands of flamingos flew through the air, almost dyeing the entire sky red.

On this day, red flamingos and Ming Dynasty airships flew together over the southwest coast of Africa...

(End of this chapter)