Chapter 1422 Airship vs Airplane (3rd update, please subscribe)
When the expeditionary soldiers arrived here, everything here seemed unaffected by the war. There were lush forests everywhere on both sides of the Marne River, and French country buildings were scattered among the green fields. Everything here was quiet and peaceful.
But in the end, all this will be broken!
On May 1, the British Expeditionary Force first appeared in front of the Imperial Expeditionary Force's defense line, and no fierce fighting occurred between the two sides.
It seems that both sides are exercising some restraint.
In fact, everyone knew that the British were waiting for the arrival of the main force.
Three days later in the early morning, a slight buzzing sound was heard in the distant sky. Honjo Shigeru, who was in the trench, knew that it was the daily routine aerial reconnaissance again - these were the airships of the British Expeditionary Force. After these airships arrived yesterday, they began to hover in the air, but they did not fly over their trenches.
To conduct aerial reconnaissance, it is not necessary to fly over the defense line. They can use telescopes to observe the rear of the Ming army's positions from an altitude of several kilometers away.
In fact, the British airships did not approach because they had received intelligence that the expeditionary force was equipped with 50mm anti-airship guns, which could have a range of more than three or four kilometers. Faced with such a threat, the British floating forces directly chose to conduct aerial reconnaissance from a distance. Facts have proved that their caution was right, and they did set up air defense positions within the defense line.
Of course, Honjo Shigeru didn't know all this. Even in Africa, airships were not rare. After all, the colonial officials liked to show their strength by flying airships in the air. For the barbaric and ignorant natives, airships were simply miracles! Not just miracles, but for those natives, they were the god of death that brought them death.
At this moment, Honjo Shigeru was thinking about the photo he took yesterday - a naked photo of a white girl he bought from a photo studio.
Foreign girls are foreign girls. Not only do they have great figures, but they are also very open-minded!
If I could find a lover in a nearby village with a figure like the woman in the photo, it would really be a blessing from Guandi.
It seems like Lord Guandi doesn’t bless this, but it doesn’t matter. As for Lord Guandi, there’s definitely nothing wrong in praying to him more.
At this moment, the sound in the air became lower and lower and gradually approached, interrupting Honjo Shigeru's wandering thoughts. He looked up at the direction where the sound came from. As soon as he looked up, his mouth opened wide and could not be closed anymore.
In the distant sky, more than twenty airships appeared. They were arranged in a huge formation and flew from high altitude.
"It's the airship team!"
"Quick, report to the commander immediately."
Soon the observers at the air defense observation post also discovered the airship, and then they made a simple estimate and said.
"The altitude should be three thousand meters, and it's still climbing. They must be trying to tear through our defenses with heavy bombs from the air!"
After the Empire used airships to blast through the Brazilian defenses time and time again during the Battle of Brazil, countries around the world learned to do the same.
After all, compared to heavy artillery, the bombs dropped by hovering airships are not only more accurate but also more powerful.
A two-ton bomb is enough to tear through any defense line.
The British...they are also good students!
However, precisely because of the powerful power of airships, the armies of countries around the world have been equipped with various types of airship cannons in the past decade to prevent airship attacks.
The Imperial Army was no exception.
However, the caliber of airship guns of various countries is between 37-57 mm, and the firing height is only more than 3,000 meters, which poses no threat to high-altitude airships.
"And the French destroyers?"
"The Commander is contacting..."
Just as he finished speaking, a roar suddenly came from behind, and the roar was particularly harsh.
"What is that?"
A soldier in the trench stood up and looked up into the sky, and suddenly someone shouted excitedly.
"Plane! It's our plane!"
airplane!
Since the Battle of Hampton, the new weapon, airplane, has spread throughout the world. Even in the African colonies, the name of airplanes is well known.
Four blue-gray painted "Falcon" aircraft were seen in the air, flying straight towards the British positions. Their flying altitude was not high, only about one or two hundred meters, which made people suspect that they were flying so low on purpose.
That's right, they were deliberately flying low. They flew over the heads of the imperial officers and soldiers. These four "Falcon" aircraft were brought by airships. In order to support the expeditionary force's operations, the imperial military specially used airships to transport twenty "Falcon" aircraft to strengthen the imperial expeditionary force's air defense.
This was the first time that planes appeared on the battlefield. They had just arrived at the nearby airship field and had not yet completed air adaptation training. Upon learning that a large formation of British airborne forces had appeared, this aviation detachment immediately engaged in battle.
"Fly, an airplane!"
Honjo Shigeru was stunned, staring blankly at the four planes flying over their heads, and soon they suddenly flew towards the sky in an almost straight posture.
As they dived into the sky, officers and soldiers of both the Imperial Expeditionary Force and the British Expeditionary Force saw these four planes that looked like toys.
Everyone looked at the plane flying freely in the sky with astonishment.
This is the plane!
"airplane!"
Compared to the astonishment of the people on the ground, the expressions of the British airship crew members in the air immediately turned into horror after they discovered the plane.
"It's a plane! A plane from the Ming Empire!"
As airship crews, they only needed to take a glance to clearly realize the threat posed by these aircraft. Compared with combat airships, they were more flexible and smaller, and posed a greater threat to airships.
Gunshot!
It sounded immediately, and the machine gunner operated the machine gun and fired at the approaching plane. The air was full of red bullet tracks.
"tracer!"
Ding Lei was startled by this discovery. Xu Fei, the rear-seat machine gunner, was also startled and said in surprise.
"Tracer bullets... this is the Empire's unique weapon. I didn't expect the British to have mastered it..."
That’s right, the British not only mastered the tracer bullet technology, but also it was their unique secret. In the air battles with French airships, they relied on it to shoot down more than 20 airships.
"There has never been any unique weapon in this world. If we can invent tracer bullets and use them to shoot down airships, the British can definitely invent them too. It's no big deal."
Although he said this, he knew that this was very important information and the army must be notified as soon as possible.
But the most important thing now is air combat!
“Avoid it!”
Ding Lei, who was originally preparing to attack from below, pressed the joystick, and the plane immediately flew towards the distance like a nimble bird.
"They ran away?"
The British machine gunners on the airship stared at the flying plane nervously. When they saw its agile posture, they all felt their scalps tingling. These planes were too agile.
"Even birds aren't as agile as them!"
Just as the British were sighing like this, someone suddenly shouted loudly.
"They're climbing, they're climbing, they're trying to fly over us!"
All the airship crew members were startled. Above their heads... that was their weak spot! "Quick, lift off, lift off..."
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(End of this chapter)
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