1825 My New Daming

Chapter 157 Enemy Attack!Not training!It's him M really! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
"Left rudder five."

"Five degrees to the left."

"boom boom"

"What's that sound? Who the hell is dropping a real bomb?"

When the bomb dropped by the airship Xixiang was on hit the sea surface and caused an explosion, Zhuge Weidao was practicing sailing under the guidance of Wang Wen. He was a young sailor at the Naval Academy back then, and he closed his eyes on both theory and practice. Eyes come first.Now I can't fix it anymore, so I have to learn from scratch!

This dignified sea school, sea university's top student and the commander of the cruiser detachment actually forgot how to sail the ship, it's really no one!
Fortunately, Wang Wen is still very reliable. He taught Zhuge Weidao how to sail. After practicing the cruiser for half a month (this is equivalent to learning how to drive the 5000A directly), the talented Zhuge Weidao was finally able to drive the cruiser proficiently.

After learning it, Military Master Zhuge was about to play tricks, and began to practice S-shaped evasive navigation on the sea. While practicing, an airship of unknown origin dropped a bomb [-] meters in front of his Lushun!The explosion sounded, but Zhuge Weidao, who was concentrating on sailing the boat, was frightened. With a shake of his hand, he almost steered the boat sideways.And Wang Wen, who was teaching him at the side, thought that Zhuge Weidao accidentally drove the boat into the training sea area of ​​​​the airship base, so he immediately scolded him-how did this drop a real bomb?Training should throw training bombs!

Fortunately, all the bridge personnel had already returned to work, so immediately a communication officer put down the phone and shouted loudly: "Sir, enemy attack! It's not training! It's him!"

Before he finished speaking, Zhuge Weidao, who was at the helm, rolled his eyes, "What are you talking about? What's going on?"

"Report sir, airship report No. 208, at least 10 unidentified airships occurred in the southeast of Jueying Island!"

Japanese pirate airship?

Is this Pearl Harbor?

As soon as Zhuge Weidao thought of this, the call from the observation post had already rang, and a staff officer shouted with a headset on his phone: "Sir, the observation post found unidentified airships in the southeast sky. The number is more than 15, and the distance is [-] meters!"

Already increased to 15 airships?Zhuge took a deep breath for the Tao, felt that he had called the helmsman to take over the rudder, and returned to the command position by himself, then raised the binoculars and began to look for the airship in the sky.

It didn't take much effort, and he found it as soon as he found it.I saw a dozen or twenty white airships lined up in a single file in the blue sky with white clouds, flying towards me one after another.It is probably because the observers of the Ming Army Navy are not used to searching for targets in the sky, or it may be because the white airship "fits" well with the white clouds in the sky, so they have not been discovered until now.

It seems that air defense needs more practice!
Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao put down the binoculars, and ordered to Wang Wen beside him: "This should be the Japanese pirate's airship, and it flies quite high. How do you think it is suitable?"

王文想了想，道：“现在打不着，得靠近到5000米内再用侧舷对敌，集中10门155毫米炮打。到3000米距离上可以用45毫米速射炮打到2000米内就只能用防空抬枪了。”

"Okay! That's it! Now sound the battle alarm and approach the enemy airship at a speed of 16 knots!"

"Yes, sir!"

When Zhuge Weidao was preparing to use cannons and guns to hit the airship, the first aerial combat in history had already begun.Although this is a fight between two airships, not two planes.However, the way of fighting is somewhat similar to the fighting between planes.The beginning is to grab the commanding heights - later aircraft also played this way, but the planes usually grab the commanding heights for the purpose of condescending and diving, while the airships grab the commanding heights to occupy a favorable shooting position.Because the cabin of the airship is hung under the air cabin, the machine gun mounted in the cabin can't shoot upwards, and it's inconvenient to throw a throwing knife upwards from the cabin!
If you can grab the high point, then it will be easier to fight from the top, whether it is shooting, throwing a knife or hitting, it will be easier.

Therefore, in the sky south of Jueying Island at this time, there was a fighting scene of two airships "rising high" together at a distance of 2000 meters!

Hydrogen spewed out from the steel cylinder, poured into the airbag like crazy, and soon filled up all the small airbags in the huge air chamber.When the hydrogen gas fills the airbag, the air in the airship's air chamber is quickly forced out, and the airship quickly floats up.Soon, the two airships had risen to an altitude of 4000 meters.

The air in the high altitude is thin, the temperature is low, and the airtightness of the boat cabin is not very good, and it will soon be as cold as an ice cellar.Guan Tianpei’s side is okay. They went to Afghanistan to carry out missions, and it was still winter, so they had already prepared fur clothes in the airship, and each person wore one. There was also an oxygen cylinder in the cabin. It's not difficult anymore.

But Xixiang is miserable, a group of Kyushu warriors who don't carry cold, and don't know how to put an oxygen cylinder in the airship.So after flying to an altitude of 4000 meters, the three samurai, Saigo, Yamamoto, and Togo, were all shivering from the cold and unable to breathe.

"Baga." Xixiang was so cold that he was "baga", and then he clutched his ribs and looked at the rising Wyvern III with fiery eyes, "Yamamoto, this can't work, think of a way! "

"Then descend the altitude!" Yamamoto said.

"Descent?" Xixiang asked, "Won't that Ming airship fly over us?"

"No." Yamamoto said, "We can fly at full speed while descending, and we can also use the wind to accelerate!"

"Yaoxi!" Xixiang nodded, "Then descend immediately!"

"Hay!"

With Xixiang's order, the airship he was riding in quickly changed from ascending to descending, and at the same time was accelerating away from Guan Tianpei's airship.Guan Tianpei, who was still proud of his airship's good high-altitude performance, suddenly found that the small Japanese airship had "fallen", and immediately shouted: "The Japanese pirate's airship has fallen!"

Ling Zongjun also found out, but he knew that he was going to run away, so he said loudly: "Mr. Guan, the pirate airship is not falling, but running away!"

"Want to run?" Guan Tianpei immediately ordered, "Chase! Hurry up!"

Ling Zongjun said loudly: "Sit still, let's descend immediately."

With his yell, the air pump of this Dragon [-] boat started running at full speed, and the hydrogen in the air bag was pumped back into the steel cylinder.As soon as the hydrogen in the airbag of the airship was pumped out, the air poured into the air chamber, and the airship began to descend at a speed visible to the naked eye.At the same time, the four engines of the airship also rotated at full speed, driving the airship, and tightly biting the Armstrong II airship.

"boom boom"

Just as the "fighting" in the air was going on, the sea-air battle also kicked off. The first to fire was the Lushun ship commanded by Zhuge Weidao. Ten 10mm naval guns roared and fired 155 shells at the ship in the air. Japanese airship.

The result was as expected, all empty!
These days, 155mm naval guns can hit a battleship at a distance of 4000 meters and nine times out of ten, but now it is strange to hit an airship at a distance of 5000 meters.

The bombardment of the Lushun probably stimulated the Japanese airships in the sky, and instead of bombing the warships parked in the port, they all rushed to the Lushun—probably wanting to sink the Ming ship that dared to shoot at them first. Navy cruiser, right?

"boom boom"

Another round of firing, this time with the 155mm gun and the 45mm gun, but still not focused.

But Zhuge Weidao didn't panic at all, it doesn't matter if the cannon can't hit, don't you have to raise your gun?

Lifting the gun is the weapon of air defense warfare!
Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao ordered: "The Lushun stopped advancing, all 155mm artillery stopped firing, and the anchor was lowered at the same time."

He had to keep the Port Arthur as stable as possible, and not let the smoke obscure the shooter's view.

After a while, on the starboard deck of the Lushun, 30 13mm caliber guns had been loaded with bullet clips and placed on the shelf. The thick muzzles were all aimed at the airship more than 2000 meters away in the air.

(End of this chapter)