"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 attack the airship, the first aerial combat in history had already begun. Although this was a fight between two airships, not two planes, the fighting method was the same as

The fights between airplanes are somewhat similar. The starting point is to grab the commanding heights - later aircraft also played this way, but the planes grabbing the commanding heights are usually to dive from a commanding height, while the airships are grabbing the commanding heights to occupy a favorable shooting position.

Position. Because the cabin of the airship is hung below the air cabin, the machine gun mounted in the cabin cannot fire upwards. It is also inconvenient to throw throwing knives upward from the cabin!

If you can grab a high point and then fight from a high position, it will be easier whether you shoot, throw a knife or hit.

Therefore, at this time, in the sky south of Jueying Island, there was a fighting scene in which two airships were one or two kilometers apart and "rising high" together!

The hydrogen gas spurted out from the cylinder and poured into the air bag like crazy, quickly filling up all the small air bags in the huge air cabin. When the hydrogen gas filled the air bag, the air in the airship air cabin was quickly forced out.

The airships rose quickly. Soon, both airships had risen to an altitude of three to four thousand meters.

The air at high altitude is thin and the temperature is low. The sealing of the cabin is not very good, and it soon becomes as cold as an ice cellar. Guan Tianpei's side is fine. They went to Afghanistan on a mission and it was still winter, so it was already early.

Fur clothes were prepared in the airship, and everyone put them on. There was also an oxygen bottle in the cabin. Once opened, breathing would not be difficult.

But it was miserable over there in Xixiang. A group of Kyushu samurai who couldn't stand the cold, and they didn't know how to put an oxygen bottle in the airship. So after flying to an altitude of 4,000 meters, the three samurai, Xixiang, Yamamoto, Toxiang,

They were all shivering from the cold and couldn't breathe.

"Baga." Xixiang was so cold that he was so cold that he clutched his ribs and looked at the flying dragon three-type ship that was still rising with fire, "Yamamoto, this won't work, think of a way quickly!

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"Then lower the altitude!" Yamamoto said.

"Descending?" Saigo 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!"

"Yao Xi!" Xixiang nodded, "Then descend immediately!"

"Hai!"

Xixiang gave an order, and the airship he was riding quickly changed from ascending to descending, and at the same time it was accelerating away from Guan Tianpei's airship. Guan Tianpei, who was still proud of his airship's good high-altitude performance, suddenly discovered that the Japanese little

The airship "fell", and he immediately shouted: "The Japanese pirate's airship has fallen!"

Ling Zongjun also noticed it, but he knew that he was trying to run away, so he shouted loudly: "Sir Guan, the Japanese pirate airship is not falling, but trying to run away!"

"You want to run?" Guan Tianpei took one look and immediately ordered, "Chase! Hurry up and chase!"

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

As he shouted, the air pump of the Feilong 3 boat began to run at full speed, and the hydrogen in the airbag was pumped back into the cylinder. As soon as the hydrogen in the airship's airbag was pumped out, air poured into the air cabin.

The airship began to land at a speed visible to the naked eye. At the same time, the four engines of the airship also turned at full speed, driving the airship and tightly gripping the Armstrong II airship.

"Boom boom boom"

While the "fight" 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. The 10 155mm naval guns roared and fired 10 shells into the air.

Japanese airship.

The result was as expected, everything was empty!

These days' 155mm naval guns will miss nine times out of ten when hitting a battleship at a distance of three to four thousand meters. Now it's strange to be able to hit an airship at a distance of four to five thousand meters.

The Lushun's targeted bombardment obviously stimulated the Japanese airships in the sky. They did not go to bomb the warships parked in the port, but rushed to the Lushun - probably because they wanted to sink the Ming Dynasty that dared to fire at them first.

Navy cruiser?

"Boom boom boom"

There was another round of shooting, this time the 155mm cannon and the 45mm cannon fired together, but there was still no focus.

However, Zhuge Weidao was not panicked at all. It didn't matter if the cannon failed to hit, why didn't he still have to raise his gun?

Carrying a gun is a powerful weapon in air defense warfare!

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao ordered: "The Lushun stopped moving forward, 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 without letting the smoke obscure the shooter's sight.

After a while, on the starboard deck of the Port Arthur, 30 13mm caliber guns were loaded with bullet clips and placed on the rack. The thick muzzles were all aimed at the airship more than 2,000 meters away in the air.
Chapter completed!