The German Zeppelin began air raids on London in January 1915, but with only sporadic success. Their mission was to fly to major British cities and drop bombs in an attempt to force the government to withdraw its troops and weapons from France in order to defend Britain. On the night of May 31, London was bombed for the first time by the LZ-38 spacecraft under the command of Captain Linnats. Searchlights cannot shine on very high flying ships. German bombs killed seven people and injured thirty, and also damaged buildings in a number of residential and commercial areas. Linnatz proved to be a man who did what he said. During the previous assault, he was not able to fly to the capital, and the attackers dropped a piece of paper warning them: "You British." We've been here and we're going to come again. To not surrender is to die. German. ”

This period is known as the "Led Zeppelin Panic". However, this fear, on which the Germans had hoped, failed in 1915 for the same reasons as twenty-five years later. The British nation will not panic, at least with the complete harassment of the Germans, the air raids will not make the proud cattle bow their heads. The sadistic abilities of the Led Zeppelins are offset by their inherent disadvantage: the Led Zeppelin can only fly in the most favorable weather. Moreover, the German High Command believed that their Zeppelin, which flew higher than the planes, could not be attacked by British fighters. In fact, these "superweapons" are completely defenseless. It is impossible for the pursuers to reach the altitude of a hard ship, but they can easily fill holes with incendiary* shells before the huge ship can fly to a safe altitude. A little spark touching very flammable hydrogen would turn the ship into hell, melting even the aluminum frame.

The large ship is not yet stable in high winds. Eleven zeppelins flew to London on the night of 20 October, and three never returned. Strong winds destroyed them. A spacecraft dropped bombs to no avail and was blown to France, where it was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. The other, after dropping a bomb at Piccadilly Circus, was also blown out of control and crashed in the south of France. The third was blown through the French forest by gusts of wind, cutting off the front gondola and its crew. It was then blown high into the air and finally seen losing control over the Mediterranean.

The initial defense of the Zeppelins showed that the British authorities did not pay attention to them. The original anti-aircraft weapons were rifles and machine guns aimed upwards, and no one thought that an aircraft equipped with machine guns could destroy this air giant, of course, this had a lot to do with the British own aircraft ceiling was not enough, and as an exporter, the standard aviation from the perspective of pilot health, it is not recommended that the Swift aircraft without a closed cockpit test the altitude above 3,500 meters, so as not to freeze the pilot. Tactics were developed through trial and error, with the Swift-piloting Manchester Flying Team attempting to fly onto the Zeppelin and drop bomblets, but the bombs often rolled off the ship, leaving unprepared pilots helpless.

British intelligence had never known how the Zeppelin was built before the war. At some point after the bombing of London, the British, on the basis of no logic, believed that each Zeppelin had a thick layer of inert gas, perhaps nitrogen, between the outer and inner layers, and was therefore fire-resistant. When their initial bombing attempt failed to get the ship to explode, they were confused again. Later, the attacking aircraft were armed with 12.7 mm caliber white phosphorus armor-piercing * shells imported from China from the Montague family, and the result was different. At the same time, these large-caliber machine guns and armor-piercing incendiary* shells were equipped with Britain's own Soproway fighters, with the result that many of the Zeppelin ships that flew to London were gone. Ship after ship fell like a burning pyre.

Lieutenant Liv 61 Robinson saw the downing of the first Zeppelin ship over Essex, and both of his machine guns were loaded with tracer rounds and armor-piercing incendiary * shells exported from China. While the ship floated under thick clouds to observe the target area, Robinson flew on it and pulled the triggers of two machine guns along the hull. The ship fell vertically to the ground in a cloud of flames. For this feat, Robinson was awarded the Victoria Cross. By the end of the week, the L-32 spacecraft had been shot down in the same way by Lieutenant F61 Soaly, and the score had increased. The third spacecraft, L-33, became the target of both aircraft and ground anti-aircraft artillery fire. The spaceship miraculously did not burn and landed with minor injuries. However, the huge losses and meager gains made the Germans feel that this mode of operation was too much to lose, so they did not organize a large-scale airship bombing operation for only half a year.

The head of the British Air Force finally figured out that the best defense was to attack, sending several planes to Zeppelin's domestic bases to destroy them, one of which was located in Evel, Belgium. Lieutenants J.P61 Wilson and J.S61 Mills flew the Farman and arrived at the Zeppelin base just before dawn, circling the area to wait for enough light to bomb the hangar. The ground forces consider them all friendly aircraft and do not shoot them. When the first daylight outlined the long shed, both drivers were at a height of two thousand feet. Wilson took aim with his eyes and threw three sixty-five-pound high-explosive bombs into the center of this building. Mills then directed his fire on the target, but was pinned down by anti-aircraft fire. He rose to five thousand feet and flew straight towards the rising plume of smoke from his buddy, dropping four twenty-pound bombs. A dazzling flash of light illuminated the ground, and the struck Zeppelin ship in the shed shattered into a shapeless pile of metal. The spacecraft that was hit was the L-38, whose commander had left his visiting card in England a few weeks earlier.

While Wilson and Mills were blowing up the L-38, double ace Lieutenant Yin Chengzong was tasked with sabotaging the second Zeppelin base in Belgium. Yin Chengzong flew close to Ostend at midnight on June 7, causing him to blink in surprise. A Led Zeppelin ship slowly cruises ahead. The new L-37 is undergoing night trials, and a group of engineers and designers from the Led Zeppelin Ship Factory have boarded the ship to check the technical details. The 521-foot-long spacecraft is operated by a crew of 28 and floats by eighteen auxiliary airbags filled with 953,000 cubic feet of hydrogen. The machine gunners stationed in each engine pod did not allow Yin Chengzong to get close, and a few bullets pierced the unimportant parts of his plane, and he had to turn around and fly out of the airship's line of sight, and after making a circle in the distance, observing the position of the machine gunner on the airship, he found a dead end.

Half an hour later, he secretly flew "behind the Zeppelin, but much higher than it," and later Yin Chengzong wrote in his logbook, "At that time the altitude was fourteen thousand feet, turned off my engine, and descended on top of it." When approaching ...... At 7,000 feet, I connected the triggers of all three machine guns, and when the front projection of the airship filled the entire scope, I pulled the triggers and fired a long burst, and for a moment I thought I had shot the last bullet into the belly of the airship, and an explosion lifted my plane and flipped over. "The ship, which caught fire, crashed into a convent near Ghent, killing two nuns. The crew of the Zeppelin, with the exception of one, became the funeral objects of the airship.

Yin Chengzong himself had to land behind the enemy's line of defense due to a malfunction, and he decided not to burn the plane without the Germans. The plane was inspected and it was found that only one of the gasoline pipes of the engine was broken. He hurriedly used the metal toggle on his cigarette holder to make a temporary joint. It is not easy for a person to start the engine by turning the propeller, because the engine does not have the speed at which it spins idling – only intermittently. Before the plane roared to take off, a solo pilot had to leap into the cockpit with great agility, but Yin Chengzong coped with it, of course, thanks to his rigorous training in the standard flying team, so he was able to return to France safely. Britain gratefully awarded him the Victoria Cross. Of course, this was his second Victoria Cross, and it had only been 73 days since he had won his first Victoria Cross for flying ten German planes.

The last Zeppelin to bomb London was the L-31, commanded by Germany's most feared attacker, Lieutenant Heinrich 61 Marty. A British lieutenant at an altitude of 14,500 feet saw the ship fifteen miles away surrounded by twelve flashes of bright searchlights. In order to get to his target, he had to fly through "a real hell of explosive fire". Only five miles from the target, the mechanical fuel pump, which supplied air pressure to the tank, stopped turning. The driver switched to an emergency backup hand pump, which requires tremendous effort at 15,000 feet.

The pilot, with all determination, continued to pump up with his hands until he flew into range, but the Zeppelin had just dropped its bomb and was flying fast. The pursuit of the airship was a modified Swift II, and the pilot Yin Deheng did his best. "With a great twitch of my fuel tank, I dived straight into the spaceship, firing a flurry of machine-gun bullets, tracer bullets in the night sky like a ray of light into the body of the airship...... Even before I missed the airship, I could already see flames coming from beneath the airship. As I flew underneath it, I fired another burst of machine-gun bullets, and God knows what I hit. Then I flew at an angle, took a position under the tail of the ship, and desperately shot bullets at it along the lower deck of the ship. As I was strafing, I noticed that the inside of the ship was starting to turn red, like a giant Chinese lantern. I've set the ship on fire. It spewed flames about two hundred feet, stopped, and before I could avoid it, it whistled straight down at me. I dived vertically as hard as I could, and the Zeppelin slammed into me." "I tried to hover around and avoid it, when the spaceship roared like a furnace and passed by me," Yin said. When L-31 crashed to the ground in a cloud of sparks, he flew the plane horizontally and watched it from the air. This black pilot with a Chinese name is the Monegasque wingman pilot in the foreign flying team who cooperated with Yin Chengzong, his real name is not remembered by many people, but Yin Chengzong gave him this Chinese name, accompanied by the world's first black ace pilot became famous all over the world, and finally he ranked in the top 50 of the air combat aces of World War I with the record of shooting down 27 enemy planes, 1 airship and 6 artillery observation balloons.

Although this record is still very limited compared with the aces of China's flight team to aid Europe, and the team record of shooting down nearly 2,600 enemy planes is not worth mentioning, these did not prevent him from becoming the spiritual idol of all black people in the world, and after the war he settled in France, became the instructor and leader of the French flight unit, and retired with the rank of colonel.