Chapter 155 The surprise attack was successful, but (please subscribe, please vote)

The name of the Fifty Years Airship Field is, of course, taken from the famous song "Fifty Years in the World". Shimazu's idol Oda Nobunaga sang such a song "Five Years in the World" before launching the Okehazama surprise attack.

ten years"!

Now that Shimazu Qi Liang is facing the behemoth of Ming Dynasty, he also needs a surprise attack by his own Okehazama!

The only weapon that can carry out surprise attacks is an airship!

After all, the difference in strength between the Japanese Shogunate Navy and the Ming Dynasty Navy was so great that it was impossible to completely surprise them with a fleet.

Even if the surprise attack is successful, there is a high probability that the flagship of the Beiyang Fleet, the Hanwu Emperor, will not be sunk by the "Four Heavenly King Ships". And once the airship force of the Ming Navy's naval aviation attacks, the shogunate navy will suffer a disaster.

So Qi Liang's only chance is the twenty small rigid airships given to him by the British - they are said to be small, but that is compared to the Ming Dynasty's Feilong III large airship. If there is no Feilong III that can carry it

A big monster that can fly across the ocean with one or two tons of bombs, this rigid airship named Armstrong II given by the British can also be regarded as a behemoth.

When Shimazu Sailiang and Komatsu arrived with their swords at the 50-year-old airship field located in a valley outside Nagasaki City, twenty Armstrong II airships were already taking off in the afternoon sunshine.

Prepared beforehand.

The one-eyed dragon Xixiang was holding his arms, standing in front of the row of airships, watching the martyrs who respected the king and the Ming Dynasty pushing the carts, carefully sending bombs and hydrogen-filled cylinders into the cabin of the airship or mounting them on the airship.

Bomb racks on both sides of the cabin.

Since the Armstrong II airship is much smaller than the Dragon III, it cannot carry sixteen 100-kilogram bombs. It can only choose to carry two heavy bombs or eight lighter bombs.

Shimazu's choice was eight 50-kilogram armor-piercing bombs - which were actually modified from a 6-inch armor-piercing artillery shell. The results of the Battle of Kii showed that if a 50-kilogram armor-piercing bomb was fired from

Hitting a Sovereign-level deck from top to bottom, and an unyielding deck, is enough to cause heavy losses.

So Shimazu Qi Liang simply gambled his life with 160 6-inch armor-piercing bullets!

As long as one hits the Hanwu Emperor, he will win the bet!

"Lord."

Saigo Yoshihei Takamori saw Shimazu Sailiang coming in a hurry and hurriedly knelt down to salute him. Shimazu Sailiang nodded heavily at this burly man who was rare in Japan and said: "Saigo-kun, the airship team is ready.

Yet?"

"Hai, the airship team is ready!"

Shimazu Qiliang nodded again: "Yaoxi, then call all the crew members together, I want to give you a lecture."

"Hai!"

The one-eyed dragon Xixiang responded, immediately stood up and shouted: "Everyone, assemble!"

The more than eighty people who were preparing to board the airship were already fully dressed by this time, with swords and ribs stuck in their waists, and were waiting at the airship field to set off!

Hearing Saigo's shout, they all came together and crowded into a group in front of Shimazu Qi Liang. Qi Liang looked at them. They were all wearing samurai uniforms embroidered with family crests and carrying two knives for slashing people.

If there is no one carrying a parachute in the boat, the boat will die and everyone will die, so there is no need to parachute.

Seeing that everyone was ready to become a god, Shimazu Qi Liang nodded very pleased and said: "Gentlemen, the future of Japan depends on your performance today. I have received definite information. Ming Kou's Han

The Emperor Wu is now in the port of Jueying Island! Warships parked in the port usually have no power, and boiling the water in the boiler is not a matter of a while, so what you are about to bomb will completely lose power.

The Hanwu Emperor, please be sure to blow it up within the port of Jueying Island!"

Everyone responded in unison: "Hai!"

Although most of them are novices on airships, they are all veteran pirates or navy soldiers. Of course, they know that the steam battleship docked in the port is quite fragile. Even if the personnel on the ship are still quite vigilant, the main power of the battleship is

It is impossible to start the system. At most, one or two small boilers and small steam engines will continue to operate to provide some energy required for lighting and heating.

If the warship is attacked by surprise at this time, I am afraid that one attack will be accurate!

Shimazu shouted loudly: "The rise and fall of Japan, we will fight here, I wish you all good luck in military affairs. Japan, on board! Emperor, on board! Board the boat and set off!"

"Onboard!"

Amidst cheers, these flying warriors all ran towards the airship where they were. At this time, the hydrogen cylinders and bombs had been installed. The flying warriors all got into the narrow cabin through the small door of the airship pod.

The ground service warriors began to untie the cables that tied the airships one by one. Every time they untied the cables of an airship, the airship suddenly jumped up like a wild horse.

Looking at the airships rising into the sky one after another, Shimazu Qi Liang and George Yilu, who had just arrived after hearing the news, took a deep breath and began to pray silently in their hearts.

In the next six to seven hours, they will pray here while waiting for the triumphant return of the airship troops - unlike the Ming Army's Flying Dragon III, these Armstrong airships do not have radios!

After their surprise attack was successful, they had no way to report "tiger, tiger, tiger" to the rear.

Therefore, Shimazu and Eritsu, who were waiting at the fifty-year airship field, could only wait and wait. Only when the airship returns will they know whether the surprise attack was successful?

However, Saigo Yoshihei Takamori did not have to wait until then, because as a co-pilot, he boarded the first airship to fly into the sky.

Now, the airship has risen to an altitude of 1,300 meters, and then, under the instructions of the compass, it takes the lead and flies north!

The 50-year-old airship field in Nagasaki is located north of Nagasaki City, more than 200 kilometers away from Jueying Island. Under calm conditions, an airship filled with bombs, fuel and hydrogen cylinders will take about three hours to fly.

That is to say, we can’t reach Jueying Island until the evening of the same day.

According to the plan, after arriving at Jueying Island, these flying warriors still have one hour to complete the bombing and then return before the sky turns completely dark. However, by the time they return to the sky over Kyushu Island, it will definitely be dark. By then

, it’s hard to say whether they can find the fifty-year airship field and complete the landing at night.

The flight of more than three hours was really a long time. Saigo Yoshihei Takamori, the "co-pilot", actually didn't know how to fly an airship, so he simply said to the airship pilot next to him who was also from Satsuma Domain: "Yamamoto, I

Squint for a while and wake me up when you are above Jueying Island. Let’s kill the enemy together!”

"Hai!" The little man Yamamoto responded, but he was a little strange in his heart. How do you, a big guy who can neither fly an airship nor drop bombs, prepare to fight? Jump down with a knife and slash the battleship?

Just when he thought of this, the big man Xixiang beside him was already snoring. In the next three hours, the three people in the airship cabin had to endure Xixiang's snoring until they saw the unsuspecting man in the distance.

Jueying Island!

"Successful! The surprise attack was successful!"

"Xixiang-kun, wake up quickly"

"Xixiang-kun, don't sleep. Do you plan to sleep on the battlefield and fight at the same time?"

It's definitely not possible to fight while sleeping, so when Saigo heard someone yelling in his ear, he woke up immediately. After waking up, he subconsciously wanted to draw his sword. Fortunately, Yamamoto next to him was quick-witted and held him down. " Saigo

Your enemy is still far away, so you don’t need to draw your sword yet!”

Yes, the airship cabin is so narrow inside. What if the knife is pulled out and hits someone?

Saigo was already awake at this time, and he also knew that it was against the rules to draw a knife in the airship cabin - there was no such rule at first, until the flying samurai carrying the knife boarded the airship.

Xixiang quickly retracted the knife, then blinked one eye and looked at Jueying Island in front of him. The sky and surroundings of Jueying Island were very quiet. The surprise attack must have been successful! However, in the sky to the north, there seemed to be an unknown creature.

The airship is flying slowly towards Jueying Island!
Chapter completed!