Chapter 160: Daying needs bigger, faster, higher, and more airships! (Please subscribe, please give me monthly tickets)

"Sir Elliot, based on my experience, air combat between airships seems to be unrealistic! Whether it is impact, shooting or throwing a flying knife, it seems that it is not easy to get it! Sneeze! Moreover, if an airship is determined to avoid and wants to attack its airship, it will be difficult to find an opportunity to attack. Sneeze!"

It was the big guy named Shinzo Kidney-Bitsuke Takamoto who was talking and sneezing. He jumped up and down in an airship, and it was cold and hot, which made him catch a cold.

But his cold is still valuable. At least he already knows that the impact of the airship is useless. It seems that it is impossible to shoot down the airship with a flying knife.

Saigo's words were translated into English by Shimazu Kiryo, and George Yiluo recorded them word for word in a black cover notebook - this is extremely valuable first-hand information, which not only records experience in airship combat, but also experience in fleet artillery warfare and ship air defense warfare!

Now George Elliot can only count on this note to win him the support of Count Nelson. Otherwise, with his poor record, he would probably be ordered to retire after returning to India and bid farewell to the Navy he loved forever.

"But you still lost eight airships on Jueying Island." George Elliot asked a sad question.

The losses in the Battle of Jueying Island are still quite heavy!

Eight airships turned into fireballs, 24 flying warriors disappeared and were in danger. The result was a big zero egg. Nothing was hit, except for Saigo who gave the Ming airship a knife! But it seemed useless.

"That's because the airship flies too low and is too close to the enemy's cruiser. In addition, the Ming Navy has equipped the cruiser with guns. This weapon seems to be a powerful weapon to deal with airships. After all, the hydrogen used by the airship is too easy to be ignited!"

Shimazu Kiyoro did not transfer the question to Saigo, but answered it directly because he had carefully asked every flying samurai who participated in the Battle of Juechai Island.

"Use a gun to defend against air" George Elliot pressed his forehead, why didn't he expect? Who doesn't have a gun to lift? A good gun can be paired with a scope to snipe human-shaped targets about 2,000 meters, and it is even more stable to hit an airship.

If he had thought of using a gun to lift the gun, the Buquzi would not have sunk. The Buquzi would have sunk so much!

George Elliot sighed and said, "It seems that the airship must fly higher."

Shimazuki nodded and said, "If the airship maintains an altitude of 3,000 or even above 4,000 meters, it should be very safe. It's just that the accuracy of bomb dropping at this height is a problem."

George Elliot thought, "It is indeed difficult to hit the target if you drop bombs at such a high speed, but it is not completely impossible. If the decisive battle between the two sides officially begins, one side's airship troops can bomb the enemy formation, even if they do not hit the target, at least it can disrupt the enemy's formation and attack the enemy's morale.

Airships can also attack enemy warships that are injured and withdraw from battle. They will generally emit thick smoke due to fires and their speed will drop significantly. They are good targets and are easier to hit."

Elliot thought about it again and said: "In addition, airships can also perform long-range reconnaissance, breaking and mining blockade tasks, and even bombing enemy cities! In the end, airships seem to have no ability to attack a cruiser in a fully combat state. It must cooperate with other warships to achieve miraculous results. It seems that the British Empire must build larger, faster, and higher airships and there are enough!"

Not to mention, after Peshawar, the Battle of Kiyi Waterway and the Battle of Jueying Island, the British Empire has truly been involved in the airship project. No, it should be the beginning!

In fact, before and after the World War in history, Western powers attached great importance to airships. Many people even regarded airships as magical tools. It was only because the planes made too fast that airships gradually became marginalized.

Now, the plane has not been invented, but the airship has become more mature with the excessive investment of the Zhuge family. It already has large airships similar to "Lz4" and "Lz5"! More importantly, the Ming Dynasty's Flying Dragon Three Airship has proved its value with real results! Practical combat is the best way to test weapons! A weapon, even if it is really awesome, as long as it has not been tested in actual combat, even if the paper data is good, it will be underestimated.

And a weapon is actually not very good. As long as you achieve good results in actual combat, you may transform into a magic weapon.

The airship is a magical weapon now. Who dares to say that it is not god? The first one in the British Empire will not agree!

If the airship artifact was not very awesome, how could the British Empire fight in Afghanistan be like this? How could the arrogant and unyielding battleship be directly sunk into the Kii waterway?

Therefore, the British Empire must strive to catch up with the airship project and must use the airship to occupy the sky!

Thinking of this, George Elliot said to Shimazu Chiryo: "Mr. Shimazu, I must go back to Kolkata now because the experience I have gained in Japan is very important for the British Empire! The British Empire will become the master of the sky and the ocean because of these valuable experiences."

As soon as he heard that George Elliot was leaving, Shimazu Chiryo was a little anxious, "General, are you going to abandon the warriors in Nagasaki?"

George Elliot quickly comforted Shimazu and said, "Of course not, the British Empire will never abandon a brave ally who fought bravely. Now the British Empire has given you enough weapons and ammunition and has given you a large amount of military expenditure. Therefore, you must use your bravery to prove that the investment of the British Empire is valuable! As long as your value is proven, the British Empire will continue to provide you with assistance."

This is very beautiful and seems to make sense. But there is a problem, that is, Nagasaki is too far away from Dai Ying and too close to the Ming Dynasty. After the Ming Empire won the victory of the Kii Sea Battle, it actually obtained the sea control power near the Japanese coast. They can completely block Nagasaki's sea transportation. At that time, the British Empire's aid will not be available!

The reason why the Ming Dynasty has not blocked Nagasaki yet is not that they can't do it, nor that they don't want to do it, but that the Ming Empire is more formal in its affairs and requires a procedure.

To fight, you must be upright and justified, and you must also propose it to the cabinet, pass the Political Council, and the Emperor (now Empress Dowager Zheng) will be approved, and then you can send troops to beat the Japanese rebels in Nagasaki.

The previous battle of the Kiyi Waterway and the Battle of Jueying Island were actually self-defense, and they were not initiated by the Ming Dynasty. As for the Battle of Peshawar, it was a proxy war inspired by the Ming Dynasty's military intelligence department. Although the Ming army intervened deeply in this war, it was a war in which the Jin Kingdom took full responsibility.

If the navy is dispatched to blockade Brei Nagasaki and the army is dispatched to land in Kyushu, it must be approved by the cabinet, parliament, and emperor before the army can take action. It is impossible for one to go alone in the Ming army!

Therefore, the culprit, Elliot, can still leave Nagasaki on the East India Company sailing ship that stays in Nagasaki, and the Nagasaki Navy may ask to board the ship to check whether there is a scattered piece on the sailing ship, but as long as there is absolutely no one on the sailing ship, the Ming Dynasty will never frame it like this. Even if you know that Elliot is not a good person, you will let him go.

After all, the Ming Empire is only going to take over Japan now, rather than going to start a war with Britain immediately. It is not the time to take action.

Of course, the greater probability is that the Ming Navy would not have found that the three 10,000-ton sailboats anchored in Nagasaki Port had run away. Because there are only a few Ming destroyers wandering outside Nagasaki, and they are quite far from Nagasaki. So when it gets dark and Elliot gets on the sailboat and leaves, most of them don’t know.
Chapter completed!