Chapter 869 God Bless Britain (Fourth Update, Please Subscribe)

Ordinary people care about food, clothing, housing and transportation, but what about those in power?

Those in power certainly care about the daily necessities of life, but more often than not, they care about... big things!

Emperor Zhu is now troubled by a major issue.

In fact, it’s not really a problem, it’s more like I was caught off guard!

The airship was shot down!

When receiving this report, Emperor Zhu couldn't believe his ears. Is it possible to do this?

"…they first used machine guns to shoot at the airship, piercing the airbag and causing the hydrogen to leak. Then they used flares to ignite the hydrogen, thus achieving the goal of destroying the airship."

Listening to Wang Xinyue's report, Emperor Zhu's expression was extremely complicated.

This is also OK...

"They destroyed two airships just like that?"

"Yes, Your Majesty. As early as two years ago, Major Ding Yunhai had already begun to study the tactics of intercepting airships and some air combat tactics. This time is just an attempt, Your Majesty..."

Wang Xinyue looked at His Majesty. Without asking, he could feel how...heavy His Majesty's mood was.

What is the plan that cannot keep up with the changes? This is exactly the plan that cannot keep up with the changes. Emperor Zhu finally led the British into the trap of airships and told them that airships are awesome and that airships are the future.

Unexpectedly, the brave attempt of an airship officer directly exposed the airship's biggest weakness.

The machine gun made a hole and the flare ignited.

This is simply a bit unbelievable, but he did it. Although he only destroyed two airships, he did achieve his goal - intercepting and shooting down enemy airships.

"After returning to the base, Major Ding Yunhai submitted another report. He requested the development of a new 20mm artillery shell for intercepting airships. The warhead of this artillery shell can refer to the reference signal flare, and a signal agent can be added to the hollow warhead..."

Ding Yunhai...

How would you like me to evaluate you?

Listening to Wang Xinyue's explanation, Emperor Zhu felt even more complicated. Adding signal agents inside the shells would make them the same type of shells as tracer bullets. Compared with tracer bullets, they were more powerful and were simply natural "airship hunters". Once such shells were launched, airships would be eliminated overnight!

"Your Majesty, I think Ding Yunhai's suggestion can be adopted. After all, after this battle, Western countries will surely learn from Ding Yunhai's tactics. By then, similar shells will surely be produced one after another. Even if we don't make them, Western countries will. After all, hydrogen is flammable and explosive. This is a well-known fact, and they will definitely conduct research in this area."

Wang Xinyue's words made Emperor Zhu nod his head in agreement. In fact, sometimes things are not as perfect as people imagine. Any industrial country that can build airships can also make hydrogen. How could they not know the weaknesses of hydrogen?

Even if there are no suitable weapons to attack airships now, it does not mean that there will not be any in the future. A major in the Ming army's airship unit can come up with a way to engage in air combat. The British and French will certainly also conduct research in this area.

Nodding, Emperor Zhu said.

"Let the Arsenal conduct research in this area!"

Emperor Zhu's words basically sentenced the airship to death. However, as we all know, there is a spear and a shield. Although the days of airships running rampant are over, it does not mean that their era will end. After all, no country will ignore the great power of airships in war. At most, they will continue to improve and perfect them. Improvements in tactics and other aspects will ensure that airships can continue to be used in wars.

“I hope Britain can hold on!”

After Wang Xinyue left, Emperor Zhu thought for a while and then talked to himself.

“Maybe we can add some more fuel to the fire!”

Add fuel to the fire, how do you add fuel to the fire?

After a little thought, Emperor Zhu picked up the phone and called Zhu Guozhong, the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

"Hey, Guozhong, tell the ambassadors of France, Russia and Austria-Hungary that we can sell them new airships and transfer their bombing and aiming technologies."

If you want others to go down a dark road, at least give them hope!

What is hope?

Of course it is the Ming Dynasty’s new sight and bomb delivery system. In fact, the Ming Dynasty has already begun to develop a new bomb delivery sight and sell old sights to France and Russia. What is the most important significance of this?

The purpose is to allow Britain to obtain these technologies from these countries, and let Britain see the tremendous power of airships in actual combat, and then go down a dark path to the end.

"Your Majesty, France and Russia will be very happy to hear this news, and it will also help to consolidate the relationship between the alliances."

When Zhu Guozhong's words reached the ears of the great emperor, he just smiled indifferently. After the Ming Dynasty sank the Brazilian ships with airships, France, especially Russia, which had few warships and almost no naval forces in the Black Sea, immediately expressed its desire to purchase Ming Dynasty's airships to make up for their lack of naval forces in the Black Sea. Ming Dynasty neither directly rejected nor agreed to this. That was Ming Dynasty's trump card, how could it be easily shown to others?

Now, Emperor Zhu's phone call has undoubtedly liberalized foreign exports, which will naturally help consolidate the relationship between the "Four-Nation Alliance".

"Tell them I want to see them wipe Türkiye off the face of the earth with their airships!"

What they wiped out was Türkiye, but what the world saw was the power of the airship. This is direct advertising!

Almost immediately after hanging up the phone, Zhu Guozhong told the ambassadors of the two countries the news that Ming Dynasty approved the export of airships and bomb delivery systems to France and Russia. Amid the joy of the ambassadors of the two countries, the two sides even finalized the order for as many as 60 airships directly over the phone.

For the Da Ming Airship Company, this was undoubtedly a very large order. On the day when he signed the order, Major Klein, the naval attaché of the British Embassy, ​​also learned the news. After learning the news, he even whistled a little excitedly.

"Well, now Britain also has the opportunity to obtain this technology!"

The reason why he was so proud was that in Russia or France... as long as there was money, there would definitely be someone willing to secretly sell this technology to Britain.

"This is definitely good news for the UK!"

As he spoke, Brian's lips curled up slightly.

"Well, at least now God is still on the side of the British Empire!"

(End of this chapter)