Chapter 158 Watch out, this is air defense! (Please subscribe, please vote)

During anti-aircraft operations, ships anchored and stopped, completely giving up their maneuverability and stopping motionless on the sea surface to bomb at will. This is an operation that needs to be postponed to the future when no one understands air defense. Planes hang bombs and torpedoes hit warships.

In this era, people will definitely be regarded as fools.

But now, Military Advisor Zhuge has his own clever plan, who dares not to listen?

The sea was calm, the Port Arthur was rising and falling gently, and nineteen white airships had formed a bombing formation, one after another, preparing to launch a line-up bombing.

In fact, according to Shimazu Sailiang's order, the number one target of these Japanese airships today should be the Hanwu Emperor. However, after Saigo Yoshibei Takamori personally went to have a "dog fight" with Guan Tianpei, the "flying samurai" who replaced him led the team.

But I feel that the Lushun is now a man, no, a ship. It is blocked in the waterway between Jueying Island and the Shenxian Terrace on the other side. It is a "valiant ship", and the man who operates the ship must be a member of the Ming Dynasty Navy.

The bravest warrior, so worth killing.

Since there are no radios on these Japanese airships, and there are no lights or semaphores to dispatch and command, they can only form the formation according to the principle of following the "lead boat". The method of determining the lead boat is based on the number. All airships have Arabic numerals on the tail.

, starting from 01 and ending at 20. Xixiang was on boat No. 01, so the leading boat at the beginning was the "Xixiang boat". When the leading boat found that the airship was blocking the road ahead, it had to rush up to resist the ones behind.

When the airship sees it, it will regard the No. 02 boat as the new leader boat, and everyone will line up behind it to fly and bomb. The order of the line up will be according to the number, from small to large.

This tactic seems very rigid, but for an airship that does not have a radio and cannot use semaphores or lanterns to command, it can only be rigid.

So when the 02 boat rushed towards the Port Arthur, the other 18 airships came with it. At best, they were called "queuing up to drop bombs", at worst, they were fueling themselves to death.

At this moment, the tense atmosphere was rising in the bridge of the Lushun on the sea. Last time, the air defense of the Indomitable was beaten to a pulp! As for the Lushun, it also has the same problems faced by the Indomitable - it is designing

Air defense was also not considered at the time, and the artillery equipped had a limited firing angle. The enemy's airship really reached the top of the head, and it was impossible to fight. The temporarily deployed gunmen were also in an unprotected state.

You can kill a lot of people with just one shot.

So for Zhuge Weidao, there is only one chance!

He held a telescope in one hand and picked up a telephone receiver in the other. He looked at the Japanese airship getting closer and closer to him, with a confident smile on his lips: "Turn on all the speakers on the starboard side. Attention everyone on the starboard side, I am Captain Zhuge Weidao."

, all 45mm guns and 13mm guns are fired in a concentrated salvo, the target is the enemy leader boat, fire again after hearing my order!"

Don't underestimate his phone call, this is the most advanced battlefield communication command system in the world today!

Through this system, the bridge can directly issue orders to all units on the ship, and can uniformly command the firepower of the entire ship. In addition, through the radio station on the ship, it can also organize and coordinate with other ships and even airships in the sky.

In a fleet battle, relying on this system, the entire fleet's capital ships can focus their fire to bombard an enemy ship!

Zhuge pointed toward the telescope, covered the voice receiver on the phone receiver with his free hand, and then asked loudly: "Report the distance!"

"2800 meters."

"2500 meters!"

"2000 meters!"

"1500 meters!"

"1000 meters!"

As the captain made distance reports one after another, the air in the bridge of the Lushun almost solidified. After all, there were 19 airships approaching. If they were allowed to drop bombs, the Lushun would be doomed.

Zhuge Weidao stretched his neck to look at the height of the airships. Their height dropped rapidly. From at least more than a thousand meters at the beginning, it was now less than 200 meters, and it was still falling rapidly.

"500 meters."

When Zhuge Weidao heard this number, he finally took a sharp breath and shouted into the phone in his hand: "Fire!"

Eleven 45mm rapid-fire guns and 30 13mm guns roared at the same time!

41 rounds of deadly ammunition whizzed towards the airship hundreds of meters away - even though there was not much ammunition, they were all aimed at the target! And the 30 Taiwan gunners were all "sharp gunners" and their marksmanship was extremely accurate.

!If we hadn’t boarded the ship, with the ups and downs under our feet, the firepower of 30 salvos would have set the airship on fire 1,500 meters away.

There is only 500 meters now, how can we miss it?

I saw dozens of flames (the flames of tracer bullets) rushing toward the unlucky airship in the sky like precisely guided lightning. But just a moment later, there were an unknown number of shells, and the bullets hit the huge airship.

Air cabin. This is a hydrogen boat! The air bags in the air cabin are filled with hydrogen that can be burned by a little spark. So the airship burned extremely violently almost at the same time it was hit. The airship was huge.

The air cabin directly turned into a fireball in the sky. Soon, the dazzling, blazing fireball swallowed up the entire airship at a speed visible to the naked eye. Then it burned into a ball of flames, and in front of people's astonished eyes

Among them, it slowly fell into the sea, just like a sun shot down by Hou Yi.

"bingo!"

The bridge of the Port Arthur suddenly burst into cheers.

Zhuge Weidao had no intention of cheering with them. He quickly picked up the phone receiver and loudly ordered: "Everyone on the starboard side, please pay attention. The target is the enemy's second airship. Take aim. Five, four, three, two, one, fire!"

This time he didn't wait for the airship to get closer to 500 meters - the Japanese were not stupid. When they saw the airship in front of them turning into balls of fire, they didn't run away quickly? So he counted five and immediately issued the order.

received the order to fire.

It was still the concentrated fire of eleven 45mm guns and 30 13mm guns, it was still a hit without any suspense, it was still a ball of fire!

"Attention everyone on the starboard side, the target is the third enemy airship."

Zhuge Weidao kept up his efforts and continued to direct the fire!

I don’t know whether it was difficult for the airship to turn around, or whether the Japanese airships were dumbfounded. Anyway, the Japanese airships in the sky did not turn around immediately, but bumped into them one after another!

What greeted them was, of course, the powerful anti-aircraft firepower of the Lushun!

In the sky, fireballs exploded one after another, and fell into the sea one after another. However, these fireballs that fell into the sea were getting further and further away from the Lushun, from the first one which was less than 500 meters away, to the eighth fireball which fell into the sea.

By that time, the distance had reached about 1,500 meters. Moreover, the height of these fireballs was getting higher and higher. By the time the ninth airship entered Zhuge Weidao's sight, it had already risen to more than 1,000 meters.

Obviously, these Japanese airships have been trying to save themselves since they discovered something was wrong. However, it is not easy for the airships to change direction, and it is not easy to switch from descending to ascending, so eight of them were shot down by the Lushun in succession.

In order to get to the sky faster, the ninth airship directly dropped its bombs. The following airships also followed the same example, all dropping their bombs to reduce weight. The airships that dropped their bombs all jumped into the sky at once, and the Lushun's anti-aircraft firepower

It's not big enough, but they can't threaten the Lushun and the Ming fleet in the Jueying base.

"Sir," Wang Wen's voice rang out, "The Japanese pirates' airship seems to have withdrawn. Do we want to pursue it?"

"No more chasing, just let them go back!"

Zhuge Weidao let them go back, in addition to being unable to hit and catch up, just to teach the British that air defense relies on precision! High firepower density is a waste of ammunition. To shoot accurately, one or two rounds will be enough.

After these airships, which were like frightened birds, receded, Zhuge Weidao raised his telescope and looked for the two airships jumping up and down in the "dog fight". This was really eye-opening!

I wonder if someone will design a "combat airship" in the future?
Chapter completed!