Chapter 1424 Turkey Hunting on the Marne River (Second update, please subscribe)
It's not about getting kicked in the head by a donkey, it's about trying to survive.
On the battlefield, no one will stand there and wait to be beaten. They will try every possible means to survive!
In order to save his life, Alfred dropped the bomb and ignored the British troops on the ground.
It is the true meaning of life to prefer the death of a friend to the death of myself!
Alfred's decision saved himself and his men on the airship. After throwing away the sandbags and bombs, the empty airship quickly rose into the sky.
"Sir, we have reached 6,000 meters!"
While the co-pilot was speaking, the altimeter needle was still moving and they were still flying higher into the sky.
When frost began to appear on the window of the airship, Alfred finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked out the observation window beside him. Other airships were also flying high in the sky, but what about those small planes?
“They are trying to climb!”
It is true that the planes were climbing very slowly compared to the airships dropping bombs, but they were gaining altitude little by little.
"Sir, we, we seem to have dropped a bomb on our own people."
"May God bless them, there is nothing we can do about it,"
Alfred even pretended to make the sign of the cross on his chest, but in fact, he... didn't care at all.
The most important thing on the battlefield is to survive.
“How slow!”
Ding Lei, who was flying the plane and climbing higher, looked at the rising airship and thought to himself,
Is this going to be a mistake?
Just then he heard the machine gunner shout.
"Captain, even though the British aircraft is equipped with machine guns, it's not easy to hit us from a distance of 500 to 600 meters. Our target is small, and theirs is large. Let's increase the distance a little. The effective range of tracer bullets is 800 meters. If we fly to a distance of 600 to 700 meters, as long as a few bullets hit the airship, it will be enough to kill them!"
Xu Fei's suggestion made Ding Lei's eyes light up, and he said while staring at the airship in the distance.
"You can try! I'll fly under them, and you try to hit them upwards!"
After saying that, Ding Lei pushed the joystick, adjusted the course and flew towards the airship.
"What's that plane going to do? Is he going to give up?"
Just as Alfred was puzzled, he saw a flash of fire on the fuselage of the plane. The red tracer trail was very obvious in the air. Dozens of red tracers flew towards the lowest-flying airship N0313.
The machine gunner on the airship also noticed it and immediately attacked the plane with his machine gun, and the red and green tracers drew eye-catching tracks in the air. The nimble plane seemed to be flying among the bullets, escaping from the green tracers.
"not good!"
Before Alfred could shout, the bottom of the airship N0313 suddenly caught fire, and flames started burning from under its airbag.
"No. 313 was shot down!"
As the hydrogen in the airship's balloon burned, several white parachutes floated through the air and the crew parachuted. However, the huge airship was like a burning torch, burning and twisting in the air, and began to slowly fall.
"Faster, faster, my God..."
As Alfred screamed in fear, the other planes followed suit and began to attack from under the airship. The machine gunners standing in the back seats operated their machine guns and fired at the targets above their heads.
The pilots kept their distance and danced in the enemy's hail of bullets. But in just a moment, six airships turned into huge torches. The huge airships, like giant ships, were vulnerable to machine guns and tracer bullets. After the planes combined the two, the once invincible giants in the sky became vulnerable waste.
This air battle between planes and airships was beyond everyone's imagination. When one huge airship after another was burning and fell from the sky, the people on the ground were all staring at the scene in amazement.
Whether it was the British who were blown to pieces by their own airship, or the officers and soldiers of the Ming Empire who became spectators watching the fun, they were all dumbfounded.
"How is this possible..."
Honjo Shigeru murmured in astonishment.
"This, this is impossible. How could an airship be shot down?"
How could an airship be shot down?
It is so huge!
In Africa, airships are a religion!
It is not only the belief of the indigenous people, but also their belief, because the airship is so powerful that it can destroy everything. The bombs it drops can kill all the people in a tribe. Even the most powerful tribe is vulnerable in front of it.
In the eyes of the indigenous people, the airship Buddha's mount is the Buddha's divine punishment, a daunting castle in the sky that will never fall.
Of course, it is also a symbol of the power of the Ming Empire.
For people like Honjo Shigeru, airships have long been associated with the power of the empire, and to some extent, it is also a belief - the belief that it can crush everything.
And now, the seemingly extremely powerful airship was shot down by an insignificant, even ugly-looking plane. This is simply... unbelievable!
As for the attack...not really.
After all, their beliefs are different from those of the indigenous people. When the indigenous people see an airship, they will kneel down in fear. They will pray, be in awe, and feel that they are ants. But for Honjo and others, an airship is just an industrial product and a symbol of the imperial science's pride in the world.
And now... the former king of the sky was defeated by a seemingly insignificant gadget. The shock this brought to them was more of awe for science.
"It's really worthy of being the Celestial Empire. When we still thought that airships were the kings of the sky, we didn't expect that the Celestial Empire had a new invention! The Celestial Empire is the Celestial Empire..."
Looking at the behemoth that fell like a torch, Honjo Shigeru and his comrades were even more in awe of the Empire. The Empire once again conquered everyone with its unparalleled science that was ahead of the world.
"Yes, this is our plane!"
An officer pointed to the sky and said.
"Our airplanes were invented by our Ming Dynasty, and only we have them. Airships have allowed us to go to the sky, but these airplanes will allow us to rule the sky!"
Airplanes will let us rule the skies!
Facing the scene where thirteen giant torches slowly fell in the air like festive fireworks, these fireworks seemed to be announcing to the world the end of the old era and the emergence of a new king.
A new capital was born. It once again proved that the sky belonged to the Ming Empire!
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(End of this chapter)
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