Ning Hui set up the autopilot, and he also left the cockpit and headed for the "phalanx" in the front.

Autopilot and phalanx are the unique features of the airships produced by the Chinese Federation.

As the first generation of a new concept, the only role of the autopilot is to maintain a certain flight direction to a certain extent, and there is no way to even ensure the altitude of the airship.

Fortunately, the change in the altitude of the airship is not fast enough to make it dangerous. The huge airship, relatively speaking, its altitude changes slowly and safely, and in the case of automatic driving, the monitoring system on the altimeter will automatically alarm when the altitude changes more than 500 meters.

In other words, when flying in this autopilot mode, most of the people in the airship can rest. This is also the reason why the Chinese Federation produces fewer airship crews.

After Ning Hui arranged everything, he came to the position of the front phalanx. Here, he's protecting the front of the airship.

The thick pod is made entirely of composite armor plates composed of fiberglass and steel aluminum alloy armor plates, with a light green front, 1.5x magnification, and a large field of view sight with fluorescent reticulation.

This is where the electric front of the airship is located, or rather, on the two tips at the front of the airbag. Sitting in this position, the airship flies almost as if the shooter himself is flying.

Here, Ning Hui can see that the enemy troops flying in are about 20~30.

"In order to catch the commander, they dispatched two squads, but they spent a lot of money!"

In Ning Hui's observational eyes, these saber fighters from nowhere seemed to be a thick cloud of ill intentions. He could easily recognize that these planes, which resembled the "Flying Blade", were definitely not owned by the Chinese Federal Flying Team.

This is because both the "Bundeswehr" air force flight team and the "Thunder International" flight team led by Red Count Richthofen have distinctive insignia and military signs.

Moreover, as the inheritors of the demeanor of the knights of the air, they would never do such a sneaky thing.

The reason is that for the Chinese Federation, there is absolutely no need for such an operation. All things that cannot be put on the table, naturally there is a "Thunder International" that collects money to do things for them. Although, almost everyone can be sure that those things are related to the Chinese Federation, in the face of the "Thunder International" of the three brigade-level troops, no one can get reliable evidence.

Therefore, as far as the soldiers of the Chinese Federation are concerned, they do not look down on the soldiers to carry out such sneaky actions. Of course, this has to exclude the "Thieves Brigade" in the Devil's Journey, because that's what they do when they're full.

The rotating machine gun rotated under the drive of the motor, and Ning Hui's two feet pedaled on the control panel, and the entire pod could rotate horizontally. The operating handle held in the hand controls the vertical direction of the pod and the machine gun.

"Well, since you want to find death, then I will satisfy you! But if you want our commander, no way......"

Ning Hui muttered to himself, his heart was filled with an inexplicable sense of grievance.

"If it weren't for the lowly putschists, if it weren't for the vile renegades, you would ...... You're just little reptiles! ”

Indeed, Tang Yunyang's Air Force No. 1 of the Chinese Federation, the "Eagle" airship, is equipped with six phalanx modules. They are fixed to the airbag and pod of the airship. Among them, the airbag is divided into 4 parts at the front and back, left and right, and one at the head and tail of the pod.

In this way, enemy aircraft flying in any direction will be hit by twin 12.7-mm machine guns of two phalanxes. This means, if you add the escort fighters, then it will be invulnerable.

After all, an enemy aircraft that can overpass the Federal Air Force escort fighters and launch an attack on the airship will be taken care of by two phalanxes, which is obviously too high.

Unfortunately, due to manpower problems, only half of the defenses on the entire airship were activated.

"Hoo ......"

The sound of the two machine guns firing in the phalanx seemed to tear the sky apart. Ning Hui manipulated, spewing out large flames from the barrel of the gun, shooting short bursts of fire in the sky.

The planes, under the intense fire of machine guns, scattered in formation and pounced on the airship like wasps. Although the tongues of fire they fired included not only 12.7 mm machine guns, but also 25 mm rapid-fire machine guns.

But due to the problem of the carrying capacity of the aircraft itself, the range of these weapons is not long. Even, their 12.7 mm machine guns are not comparable to the range of the phalanx on airships equipped with heavy long barrels.

Before the opponent's saber fighter opened fire, the dense array controlled by Ning Hui had already fired nearly 5,000 rounds. For two rotary machine guns, this is not a huge number.

In terms of the bullets that the Phalanx prepared for the rotating machine guns alone, each of the Phalanx's one-sided rotating machine guns had 20,000 rounds of ammunition in their ammunition boxes.

Even with such a large number, it was still only enough for the rotary machine gun to fire at full speed for just over 3 minutes. Under normal conditions, the crew will install new ammo boxes for the weapons from time to time.

But now it is not a normal state, Ning Hui has no choice but to use the rate of fire of 3,000 rounds per minute to resist the attack of the opponent's enemy aircraft.

"Come on...... Come on...... You sons of bitches! ”

The opposing planes opened fire, apparently, their target was the airbag, as long as the airship had to make a forced landing on Russian soil below.

As long as the airship is forced to land, then no matter the extremely tempting secret equipment and the extremely tempting people on the airship, it will become the opponent's biggest trophy.

Ning Hui, who was sitting in the pod, clearly felt the trembling of the "Eagle" airship. It is estimated that this is the other side breaking through the air defense of the phalanx on the upper part of the airship, and is using their 12.7mm machine guns and 25mm machine guns to tear a big hole in the airship.

At this time, the enemy planes in the sky reduced their attacks on his area. Ning Hui estimated that the attack of the enemy planes was probably concentrated on the back of the airship, although there were two phalanxes in that place that were constantly firing. But the airship's wide back makes it more vulnerable to attacks from all directions.

"These guys are tough enough to take their lives seriously at all!"

Ning Hui muttered and ran out of the phalanx firing module, now he had to throw away the airship's ballast, the battery. Only by reducing this weight can the airship continue to maintain altitude.

The moment the handle was pulled down, Ning Hui could feel that the airship suddenly moved upwards due to the weight reduction. Now all he could pray in his heart was that the "automatic repairs" of those airbags would be of some use.

In the airbags, there are usually some soft and tough, balloon-like playthings. These are small balloons made of fabric using glass filament. When the airbag is broken, the small balloon will float to the breach due to the pressure of the inner tank.

If the breach is not very large, these small balloons will automatically plug the gap.

After completing this action, Ning Hui jumped up again and ran towards the airship's phalanx module. As long as you support for one more minute, you will have one more hope of being rescued.

But when he put on the headphones of the phalanx again, there was only one person left when he shot inside. This let him know that one of his men had been killed in the battle.

But now he couldn't think about it anymore, he shook the handle between his legs, stepped on the pedal, and adjusted the orientation of the phalanx pod.

"Boy, if I were you wouldn't run, because ...... Because...... You...... You're dead! ”

When the halo on the scope put on one of the enemy planes he was chasing, he gritted his teeth and pressed the button that fired.

"Hoo ......"

With a hurricane-like whistling, a long whip-like bullet hit the enemy plane. It's as if you were hit by a shell. The excessively dense stream of bullets tore the enemy plane to pieces almost instantly.

But before Ning Hui could get happy, the sound of being hit by a machine-gun bullet sounded on his phalanx pod.

The steel groaned violently under the impact of the bullets. Although the range of the opponent's 12.7mm machine gun is not as long as that of the Phalanx module, its power is beyond doubt.

Almost instantly, a series of holes were punched in the deck. The sunlight shone in from there, shining on Ning Hui, who was already heavily tasked by being hit.

He sat wilted in his seat, blood streaming down from the corners of his mouth.

"Am I hurt?"

At this time, he had not yet felt any severe pain in the place where he had just been hit, due to the burning of the bullet and the numbness of the nerves.

"No, I have to get up, I ......"

He tried to reach out his "hand" to hold something so that he could straighten up and continue fighting. However, it was only when he moved his arm and did not reach his goal that it caught his attention.

He struggled to move his body, and he could see that his right hand was still clinging to the handle of the shot. On the body, a large piece of shrapnel easily penetrated the armor.

"Holy, oh no! My injuries seem to be hopeless, how long can I live! …… Hmph, God knows, now ...... What now? ”

When he came to these conclusions, there seemed to be a sense of relief. At the same time, he had another anxiety.

"In any case, the Commander and Anne must not fall into the hands of the enemy."

Although the guards like him still can't know about Anne. Taylor's true identity.

"I order you, activate the self-destruct device, and abandon the boat...... Escape and fly north! ”

This was the order that Ning Hui, who was seriously injured, issued to his only surviving subordinate at the last moment of his life, and the reason why he issued the latter order.

This is because if the enemy is to search for the wreckage before the rescue forces of the Chinese Federation, then they will search to the south, because that is the way back to the Chinese Federation.

In this case, it would be safer to flee in the opposite direction.