Chapter 156 You have the ability to hit the airship, and I have the anti-aircraft gun! (Please subscribe, please vote monthly)

"Baga is the airship of the Ming Army!"

The one-eyed dragon Xixiang raised his telescope and took a look, and immediately exclaimed. And the warriors on the airship he was on all looked frightened.

Xixiang put down the telescope and saw faces that were afraid of death. He immediately said angrily: "Baga, why are you afraid? As a samurai, you are not afraid of committing seppuku. Are you still afraid of fighting the enemy in the sky?"

Yamamoto, who drove the airship, heard this and asked helplessly: "Captain Saigo, what are we going to use to fight the enemy's airship? Our airship does not have weapons installed on it that can be used to attack other airships!"

It turns out that the original function of the British Armstrong II airship was only for reconnaissance, patrol and mine laying. It mainly served as the eyes of the fleet and fortress. If it could fly to the enemy's doorstep and drop a few mines, it would have overfulfilled its mission. Not to mention air combat, even bombing.

The functions are all added later. Because this type of airship originally has a mine pylon and can drop mines in the air, it is relatively simple to convert it into a bombing-type airship, which is nothing more than turning a mine into a bomb.

But it is difficult to install a machine gun in the narrow cabin of an airship for air combat. There are no air-cooled machine guns now. The machine guns are all bulky water-cooled ones, weighing tens of kilograms. And according to standards, they cannot be operated by one person for a long time. They must

With a ammunition feeder, two people can operate a machine gun for a while. For a large boat like the Feilong III, the cabin space is enough to accommodate two machine gun teams, and there are enough personnel to provide guest supplies in the event of a battle.

However, the narrow cabin of the Armstrong Type II boat did not have extra space for a machine gun, and its crew was relatively small. There was only a driver, a co-pilot, a navigator and bombardier, a total of only three people.

So according to the British idea, if the Armstrong II airship encounters a hostile Dragon III airship in the air, it can just run away. Although the top speed of the Armstrong II airship is not as fast as the Dragon III airship, no matter how fast the airship is, how fast can it go?

Go? And as long as you fly lower, you can also take advantage of the complicated wind direction and terrain at ultra-low altitude to break away from the terrain - because the Feilong III boat is too big, it is definitely not very flexible when flying at ultra-low altitude.

But can Xixiang and the others run away now?

Saigo Yoshibei Takamori raised his telescope again and looked at the bay next to Jueying Island in the distance. Inside the bay, there was peace. Except for one Lushun-class cruiser sailing slowly in the bay, there were more than 20 white ships.

The warships were all lying beside the port pier, and they were arranged in two neat columns, including at least four battleships (including one Great Emperor class and three Prince class), five cruisers (all Port Arthur class) and a dozen thousand ships.

Destroyers weighing in to tons. Except for the Port Arthur class that was sailing slowly, there was no smoke from the chimneys of these ships!

In other words, these ships do not have any maneuverability!

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

And it doesn’t matter even if these airships are shot down over the warship, because even if the airship hovering above the warship with bombs is exploded with a hydrogen bag, there is a high probability of falling vertically and directly hitting the head of the warship below with the bomb.

!

The trade-in of one boat for one is worth it!

Then Xixiang looked around again with his telescope. There was a Ming Army airship in the sky. It should be an airship performing patrol missions. And airships cannot fly at will. Routine inspections are required.

, and it took a long time to add gas and elasticity.

So as long as you block this airship and don't let it attack the Armstrong II boats that are slowing down to hover over the battleships, then the surprise attack on Jueying Island will be won!

Thinking of this, Saigo Yoshihei Takamori pulled out his ribs (the airship cabin was too narrow to dare to play with swords), then pointed at the Ming Army airship in the distance, and said loudly: "We are samurai, and samurai only need swords."

With it in hand, we can defeat any enemy. Although we don’t have machine guns, we do have knives!”

Cutting up an airship with a knife?

Yamamoto and several other flying samurai were speechless.

Seeing the stunned expressions on Yamamoto and others' faces, Saigo shouted angrily and pointed a knife at the Ming Army's airship: "Target, hit the Ming Army's airship!"

It's a hit, not a cut!

Yamamoto and others also knew the consequences of the airship collision, but they still shouted together: "Hai!"

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

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

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

"Yes, sir!"

The crew on the Ming army airship also discovered the incoming Japanese airship at this time, and Guan Tianpei, the admiral of the Ming naval aviation, happened to be on the Flying Dragon III airship. He was taking flying lessons. As a navy

The admiral of the aviation force, he must be able to fly an airship, right? So he took advantage of the opportunity to sit at the Jueying Island airship base and arranged an airship driving class for himself. If there was nothing important that day, he would follow the airship on a security mission.

It took six hours to fly into the sky. Unexpectedly, as I was preparing to finish the flight and go back for dinner, I encountered an incoming Japanese airship!

This made Guan Tianpei extremely anxious!

Because the anti-aircraft firepower on the current Ming Navy ships is very weak. In addition to the machine guns, 45mm rapid-fire cannons, and 155mm rapid-fire cannons that can be used to attack airships, there is only a 13mm caliber anti-aircraft gun!

Well, just raise the gun!

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

In fact, the gun-carrying style is not unique to the Qing Dynasty in history. European countries also have weapons similar to the gun-carrying style. Some people in Japan enlarged the matchlock gun and used it as a small cannon, which is actually a gun-carrying style. In the new Ming Dynasty, the gun-carrying style was used

The gun was "invented" by King Zhuge Wuzhong, and it was a rifled version and equipped with a "Mine bullet". When King Wuzhong followed Zheng Chenggong in the northern expedition to Nanjing, this "Mine version of the gun" was used

He showed his prowess on the battlefield and caused heavy casualties to the Qing artillery and elite white-armored soldiers.

After King Wu Zhong came to power, the "Minie version of the gun" became a sharp weapon for the Ming army's sniper soldiers. It was equipped with a large number of weapons and killed all directions. Later, the Ming Dynasty did not fight for more than a hundred years, so

There is no reason to eliminate such an ancestral treasure as the carry gun. However, the carry gun has been upgraded and a 13 mm caliber rear-mounted repeating gun carry has been developed. Moreover, no one needs to carry it anymore, and a tripod gun stand is used instead.

to support.

Because this kind of gun has a long range, is powerful, has high accuracy, and also has 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 bullets of the machine gun can also be used)

, so they were issued to the Navy for use in flying airships.

It is a pity that the airships of the Ming Navy Air Force are not equipped with anti-aircraft guns. They can only use 7.5mm water-cooled machine guns installed on both sides. The effective range of this machine gun is only more than a thousand meters, and it cannot move forward or backward.

Shooting - The purpose of the Ming Dynasty naval aviation force to install machine guns on airships is actually to strike down on small ships on the sea, not for air combat.

"Boom boom boom"

At this moment, several explosions suddenly came from the sea. It turned out that the airship Saixiang was riding in had thrown away the bombs it carried so that it could launch into the air collision battle lightly.

After throwing away the bomb, the Armstrong boat suddenly became very light, and it was in a downwind position. After turning on full power, the speed was even faster. It aimed at the airship Guan Tianpei was riding and rushed over.

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

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

"Yes, sir."
Chapter completed!