1062 Lost the stone and returned
The base of the Qi airship is on the opposite shore, and their flight radius is not far from the original. So, they are able to provide limited air support.
The number of Qi airships is extremely huge. There were two hundred airships in one flying wing. This scale far exceeds the size of the Qin army. Although the establishment of the Qi Air Force was arranged according to the establishment of the Qin army, their numbers were done according to their own will, and they believed that air superiority was numerical superiority in the air. Only when airships are densely assembled can they exert greater effectiveness in warfare.
In addition, it is the airship of the Qin State, and the plane strangled them, in order to make the airship safer. They used this way of large dense formations. In this way, it is easy for them to have a stronger collective power. It was under such circumstances that the Qi Air Force gradually grew up.
The weather was sunny. There was no wind, the sky was clear, and there was not even a single cloud.
The airships formed a dense flight formation and flew towards the position of the Zhao army. And the Zhao army strengthened their positions at this time.
"When will our infantry arrive?" A Zhao soldier is digging in the trench to reinforce their trench.
"I don't know. The infantry is moving very slowly, they still have artillery, and those artillery are always the slowest, and none of us can rely on it but ourselves. A shirtless veteran replied.
"If you want to survive, dig the trenches a little deeper. When you die, you don't have to dig anymore. The veteran continued.
"You mean, we're digging a grave for ourselves." The Zhao soldier asked.
"That's right." The veteran shoveled up a shovel and threw it out of the trench, which had been deepened to the height of one man, which was quite high. You know, the shells of this period could not have jumped over such deep tunnels to explode.
However, in order to achieve the purpose of reinforcement, the Zhao army had each soldier reinforce a trench, and not only that, but they also strengthened the arrangement of barbed wire, and in front of the main position, three barbed wire fences were arranged. These barbed wire fences are effective in creating serious obstacles for infantry to advance.
"Oh my God." The ground sentinel, who was on guard in the distance, noticed a large black press on the other side of the river.
"What's that?" The sentry was surprised.
"Squad leader, look, what's that?" The sentry slapped the squad leader on the side with his hand. In order to prevent the Zhao army from losing their positions again, they sent a large number of guard posts in the outlying places. These guard posts will provide Zhao Jun with a considerable amount of reaction time. In order to get their infantry into combat positions.
"Yes, it's the Qi army's airship." The squad leader glanced at it and said.
"Alarm, blow the alarm horn quickly." The squad leader shouted loudly at this time.
Just look for the time when the soldiers of the Zhao army blew the warning horn. The artillery of the Zhao army on the commanding heights also spotted the airship of the Qi Air Force that was flying towards them.
"It's airships, and they're huge." An artillery lieutenant with an artillery rangefinder in his hand was observing the approaching airship.
"Duck now, quick. Hide all our artillery. Hurry up. The lieutenant shouted loudly at this time. Then run around.
"Air raid siren. Air raid sirens. The lieutenant shouted.
"Toot beet. Toot toot toot. The hurried trumpet sounded in the Zhao Army's guard post. Blowing on the artillery positions on the commanding heights of the Zhao army.
"The enemy is coming. Fast. Take up arms. The soldiers of the Zhao army subconsciously picked up their weapons and began to enter their positions, but they had no idea that this was an air raid siren, not a signal of an attack by ground troops. The Zhao army did not separate the signal of the ground attack from the air alarm at all, and they seemed to have ignored the threat from the air at this time.
"What's the situation?" At this time, a captain Zhao Jun on duty hurriedly ran to the guard post over there to check the situation.
"It's an air strike. Sir. It is the airship of the Qi Air Force. As he spoke, squad leader Zhao Jun pointed to the airship approaching in the sky.
"Oh my God." The captain realized something.
"Not good, our people are entering the battle position, and they don't even know what's going on?" The captain shouted loudly at this time.
"I need to inform them." With that, the captain left quickly.
"What should we do?" The soldier on the side looked at the captain officer who left in a hurry and asked.
"Alert, resist, then retreat." The squad leader said.
"If you dare to be the first to escape, I will shoot you." The squad leader then picked up his rifle, loaded the bullet and warned the other party fiercely. And the other party just nodded blankly.
And artillery positions on the commanding heights. The artillerymen were nervously packing up the guns on their positions and pushing them into a safe and sheltered place. Prevent damage from air raids.
"Hurry up, we're going to protect these guns." The second lieutenant struggled to put the artillery in its original position, and then pulled the horses away, and some of the artillerymen could not take care of their horses, so they had to remove the artillery by manpower.
"All into the trenches. Fast. All into the trenches. It's an air raid, it's an air raid. The captain shouted urgently.
"Ahh It was only at this time that the soldiers of the Zhao army discovered the airship of the Qi Air Force that was approaching.
"Quick. Yes. Duck out. The soldiers of the Zhao army suddenly crowded into the narrow trenches, and the soldiers began to scatter and hide. They knew that those damn airships were going to throw stones at their heads. It's not so much fun to drop these stones.
The soldiers of the Zhao army quickly left. And the captain kept running, shouting loudly, and then let his soldiers dodge. As soon as the Zhao soldiers heard that it was an air raid, they quickly took refuge in what they thought was fortified, and they never had any hope for the wooden fortifications.
"Those big rocks are going to smash the wooden stuff to pieces. None of the people inside survived. The veteran said. They took refuge in makeshift digging pits, and now they could only hope that those damn big rocks wouldn't fall on their heads.
"We're getting closer to the position." A Qi pilot on the airship shouted loudly. They wore thick winter coats. Without any windproof eyes, their flight suits looked simple and shabby compared to the Qin army, but they were indeed the pride of the Qi Air Force.
"With such a dense flight formation, it will definitely be able to smash a lot of Zhao people to death." Another pilot shouted loudly. And in the back, one pilot is providing power, while in front of two people, one provides piloting, one operates the weapon, and at the same time, he observes. Due to the liftpower of the airship, the load capacity is very limited. They can only form this kind of three-person flight formation, there are only three people on each airship, and their airship is also very large. Only then can they have enough lift, as well as enough space to put down the stones in their hands.
The heavy stones kept them from flying, and they were only about fifty miles from the ground, overloaded with their weapons.
"This is our airship, and we look like we have a chance to go home." The Qi soldiers on the ground looked up at their airships.
They were full of hope for the appearance of their airship.
"Shoot. Rapid fire. The sentries at the guard post decisively began to shoot at the low-flying airships.
"Bang." "Bang bang." Bullets kept coming out of the muzzles, and the airships flew too low.
"Woo." Bullets can easily hit those airships that are not tall and bulky.
"Poof." A bullet flew in and broke the airship's airbag.
"Our airship was hit." One of the pilots shouted loudly.
"Hold on, we can get to the sky if we hold on." The driver yelled loudly. In order to load more stones, they unloaded their weapons directly. That's when they realized how stupid the idea was. The threat from the ground is far greater than they imagined.
"Throw the stone down and kill them." And some airships roared loudly at this time.
"Boom, boom." Stones were thrown directly from the location of their bombing bays.
"Whew." The stone whistled and flew towards the Zhao Army guard post on the ground. The sentry lay on his stomach with the thud of a stone falling to the ground.
"Bang." There was a huge sound of stones falling to the ground, and that sound was enough to make the Zhao soldiers tremble in the earth.
"My heart is about to shake out." A Zhao soldier lying on the ground shouted. The veteran on the side was squatting in place, he knew what kind of damage this kind of shock would cause to the human body.
"Whew." The stones are still falling.
"Damn, we haven't reached the main position yet, we've run out of stones." A lieutenant colonel of the Qi Air Force shouted loudly. Such a throwing method will consume a large number of stones.
"Not good, General, look, our airship over there is on fire. One of the pilots shouted at this time. In the left position of the formation, an airship was hit by a flying bullet. Presumably a bullet hit the wooden fuel tank, and then the tank leaked and caught fire. But the terrible things are yet to come. The airship behind couldn't turn in time to get out of the way.
Straight, the airship behind it crashed straight into it. This led to a direct fire on two airships.
The dense formation makes the airship individuals lack a certain amount of freedom. This kind of large formation can easily cause a lot of trouble by the airships behind, especially the slow flying machines like airships.
The chaos continues. The airships behind were lucky to get out of the way, but before they were happy, the airships that followed closely collided directly, and the two airships made intimate moves in the air. The airships of the Qi army suffered heavy losses.
"Throw away the stones. Return. The lieutenant colonel yelled loudly.