1825 My New Daming

Chapter 156 You have crashed the airship, I have anti-aircraft guns! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

"Baga, it's an airship of the Ming army!"

Cyclops Xixiang raised his binoculars to look, and immediately exclaimed.And the warriors on the airship he was on were also frightened.

Xixiang put down the binoculars, and saw faces that were afraid of death, and immediately said furiously, "Baga, why are you so scared? As a warrior, you are not afraid of harakiri, are you afraid of fighting the enemy in the sky?"

After hearing this, Yamamoto, who was driving the airship, asked helplessly: "Captain Xixiang, what are we going to use to fight the enemy's airship? Our airship is not equipped with weapons that can be used to attack other airships!"

It turns out that the original role of the British Armstrong II airship was only for reconnaissance, patrol and minelaying. It mainly served as the eyes of the fleet and the fortress.Not to mention air combat, even the bombing function was added later.Because this type of airship already has a mine hanger that can drop mines in the air, it is relatively simple to convert it into a bombing airship. It is nothing more than turning mines into bombs.

However, it is very difficult to install a machine gun in the narrow cabin of an airship for air combat. There are no air-cooled machine guns. The machine guns are all bulky water-cooled ones. With a bomber, two people can operate a machine gun for a while.For a large boat like the Dragon III, the space in the cabin is enough to accommodate two machine gun groups, and there are enough personnel to serve as bombers in case of battle.But the cabin of the cramped Armstrong Type [-] boat has no extra space for a machine gun, and its crew is relatively small, only three people in total, a pilot, a co-pilot, and a navigator and bombardier.

So according to the British's vision, if the Armstrong II airship encounters the hostile Dragon III in the air, just run away.Although the top speed of the Armstrong II airship is not as fast as that of the Wyvern III, how fast can the airship go?And as long as you fly a little lower, you can use the complex wind direction and terrain at low altitudes to break away from contact with the terrain—because the Dragon III is too big, it is definitely not very flexible to fly at low altitudes.

But can Xixiang and the others escape now?

Saigo Yoshihei Takamori raised his binoculars again, and looked at the bay beside Jueying Island in the distance.Inside the bay, it was peaceful. Except for a Lushun-class cruiser sailing slowly in the bay, the other 20 or so white ships were lying on the side of the port yard, and they were lined up in two neat columns. Among them were at least four battleships ( Including one Dadi class, three Wang Ye class), five cruisers (all Lushun class) and a dozen destroyers of about [-] tons.Except for the Lushun class that was sailing slowly, the chimneys of these ships did not smoke!
In other words, none of these ships have any maneuverability!

In theory, as long as the airship can fly over the heads of these ships to hover, and then slowly descend to a low enough altitude, it can ensure that the bomb hits the target.

And even if these airships are shot down over the ships, it doesn't matter, because even if the airships with bombs hovering above the battleships are detonated, there is a high probability that they will fall vertically, directly carrying the bombs on the head of the battleship below. !
The trade of one boat for another is worth it!

Then Xixiang looked around with his binoculars. There was only one airship of the Ming army in the sky, and it should be an airship on a patrol mission.And the airship is not something that can just fly. It has to go through routine inspections, and it takes a long time to refuel and bomb.

So as long as you block this airship and don't let it attack those Armstrong II boats that are slowing down and preparing to hover over the battleship, then the surprise attack on Juying Island will win!

Thinking of this, Xixiang Jibingwei Longsheng pulled out his ribs (the cabin of the airship is too narrow to dare to play Taisao), then pointed to the airship of the Ming army in the distance, and said loudly: "We are warriors, and warriors only need swords With it in hand, we can defeat any enemy. Although we don't have machine guns, we have knives!"

Hack the airship with a knife?
Yamamoto and the other flying warriors were speechless.

Seeing the stunned faces of Yamamoto and the others, Xixiang yelled angrily and pointed a knife at the airship of the Ming army: "Target, hit me by the airship of the Ming army!"

It's bumping, not chopping!
Yamamoto and others also knew the consequences of the airship collision, but they still shouted loudly: "Hay!"

"Whose airship is this? Why are there so many?"

"Officer Guan, those British Armstrong boats should belong to the Japanese Nagasaki rebels!"

"Nagasaki rebels? Then they come to Jueying Island. Ah, sneak attack! Quick, send a telegram, there are enemy airships coming, the number is more than ten!"

"Yes, sir!"

The crew of the airship of the Ming army also discovered the incoming Japanese airship at this time, and Guan Tianpei, the admiral of the Daming Naval Air Force, happened to be on this Flying Dragon III airship. He was taking flying lessons. The admiral of the aviation force, he must know how to fly an airship, right?So he took the opportunity of sitting in the airship base of Jueying Island to arrange airship piloting lessons for himself. If there was no major event that day, he would fly with the airship on a security mission for six hours.Unexpectedly, just as I was preparing to end my flight and go back to eat, I ran into an incoming Japanese airship!
This made Guan Tianpei very anxious!
Because the anti-aircraft firepower on the Ming navy ships is very weak, apart from the machine guns, 45mm rapid-fire guns, and 155mm rapid-fire guns that can be used to shoot airships, there is only one 13mm caliber anti-aircraft gun!

Well, just raise the gun!

It sounds backward, but as long as it is built and used well, it is still very powerful.

In fact, carrying guns was not unique to the Qing Dynasty in history. European countries also have weapons similar to carrying guns. Some people in Japan have enlarged matchlock guns and used them as small artillery, which is actually carrying guns.In the new Ming Dynasty, the carrying gun was "invented" by King Zhuge Wuzhong, and it was a rifled version equipped with "Migne bullets". When King Wuzhong followed Zheng Chenggong in his northern expedition to Nanjing, this "Mine" "Carrying the gun" once showed great power on the battlefield, beating the Qing army artillery and elite white armor soldiers with heavy casualties.

After King Wuzhong came to power, the "Migne version of carrying the gun" became a sharp weapon of the Ming army's snipers, equipped with a lot of equipment, and killed the Quartet.Later, the Ming Dynasty came and did not fight for more than 100 years, so there was no reason to eliminate the ancestral treasure of carrying guns, but it still upgraded the carrying guns and developed a 13mm caliber rear-mounted burst Lift the gun, and no one needs to lift it, instead use a tripod gun stand to support it.

Because this kind of gun has a long range, great power, high precision, and there are tracer bullets that can be used to ignite hydrogen (this kind of gun actually uses the same ammunition as the 13mm heavy machine gun, so the tracer bullet of the machine gun can also be used) , so it was issued to the navy to fight airships.

It's a pity that the airships of the Ming Navy Air Force are not equipped with anti-aircraft guns. They can only be fired with 7.5mm water-cooled machine guns installed on both sides. The effective range of this machine gun is more than 1000 meters, and they cannot shoot forward or backward. —The purpose of Ming Dynasty Naval Air Force to install machine guns on airships is actually to strike down small ships on the sea surface, not for air combat.

"boom boom"

At this moment, there were several explosions on the sea surface. It turned out that the airship Xixiang was on had dropped the bombs it was carrying so that it could go into the air ramming battle lightly.

After dropping the bomb, the Armstrong boat became very brisk at once, and it was in a downwind position. After fully powered on, the speed was faster, and it aimed at the airship Guan Tianpei was riding on and rushed over.

This surprised Ling Zongjun who was teaching Guan Tianpei to fly the airship, and shouted: "It, is it going to hit us?"

Guan Tianpei, who was still sitting next to him, reacted quickly, and immediately ordered: "Hurry up, go up quickly, and shoot it with a machine gun from above!"

"Yes, sir."

(End of this chapter)