Less than two days after the combined European fleet left the Suez Canal zone and entered the Red Sea, it was called back to the vicinity of the Suez Canal to stand by. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It turned out that this was a very alarming piece of information that all European countries had received:

The army of the Chinese Empire was armed with 5,000 to 10,000 airships, which could carry out both bombing on land, attacking ships on the sea, and even firing torpedoes at the surface!

And the Wa Kingdom, Oros, and Mi States, which were directly engaged with the Huaxia Army, concealed the powerful role of these airships and deliberately lured the warships of European countries to go to the Far East to die!

After learning this information, the governments of various countries, regardless of whether it is true or not, first stopped their own fleets, and then slowly sent people to investigate the source and investigate the authenticity of the information.

The new Tsar of the Oros Empire, Nicholas II, was furious, and the emperor of the Japanese kingdom was even more disappointed by this, but soon, these two countries and the United States were immediately reprimanded by the European countries:

Why didn't they inform the European countries about the role of the Chinese army's airships in the war? Is there any scheme?

In this case, how can the three countries that were beaten by the Chinese Empire explain it clearly to other countries?

None of the three countries could say clearly, and as a result, the other countries were more suspicious and more reluctant to let their own fleets go east, which made the coalition fleet stop again.

The European fleet repeatedly stopped its eastward advance with twists and turns, and the officers and men of the combined fleet of the Oros and the Japanese were tortured to the point of vomiting blood, even the officers and men of the Eight-Nation Allied Fleet were also fascinated, and even the Huaxia Army trained in the Far East was about to vomit with disgust.

Even the suave scholar General Makarov became impatient, and after consulting the Tsar, he decided to ignore the whereabouts of the Eight-Nation Coalition fleet and ordered the Otto-Japanese fleet to move east immediately.

However, there were still people in Europe who understood, and after some quarrels, the Combined Fleet, after a delay of fifteen days, replenished more than 500 airships, and finally set off for the east.

When he received the news that the Hubei-Japanese Combined Fleet and the Eight-Nation Allied Fleet were advancing eastward, Hu Zhen had already rushed to the Sulawesi Sea on the east side of Borneo to join the main fleet.

The main fleet of the Huaxia Army, which is trained here, is surrounded by more than 100 torpedo boats, destroyers, and coast guard ships that are on guard and cover the sea area of more than 100 kilometers, so that no unrelated ships can get close to the 20 kilometers of the main fleet.

In just a few months, the gun barrels of almost all warships have been replaced, and the officers and men are very familiar with their own business, and they can complete the action within the specified time with their eyes closed.

In the past few days, Zhang Dajiang, the military attache of the Chamberlain, has been very worried, worried that the fleet of the Eight-Nation Alliance will increase by 500 airships and that the Huaxia Army will lose its air superiority.

Seeing that the artillery accuracy of the main fleet of the Huaxia Army was very good, Zhang Dajiang's worries were a little better, but he was still secretly worried.

Hu Zhen saw it in his eyes, but didn't say anything.

After seeing the fleet's single-ship artillery bombardment, column salvo shelling, torpedo attack, and airship bombing, Hu Zhen boarded the flagship Chang'an to join Zheng Dingbang and said to the people around him: "It's time for our secret weapon to appear!" ”

Zheng Dingbang picked up the wireless intercom and shouted: "The emperor has a decree, the Great Wall, the Yangtze River, Luban, Zhang Heng, Cai Lun, you can all come out!" ”

For the two battleships of the Great Wall and the Yangtze River, everyone is mentally prepared, but not many people know what is going on with the Luban and Zhang Heng.

Especially Zhang Dajiang, he is the emperor's attendant military attaché, and he knows most of the secrets of the Huaxia Empire, but he didn't expect that there were two warships hidden by the emperor, and he had never heard of any information about his attendant military attaché, but he heard Hu Zhen say that there were still secret weapons that had not been taken out, and he was looking forward to it at the moment.

An hour later, two battleships appeared on the sea, and judging from the distant shadow of the ships, they were larger than the four battleships Chang'an, Changzhi, Changshan, and Changhe.

Zheng Dingbang nodded to an officer, who introduced:

"The battleships of the Great Wall and the Yangtze River were built on the basis of the original four battleships, with a displacement of 15,200 tons, a speed of 21 knots, two triple guns with a total of 6 305 mm caliber 40 times the diameter of the main gun, 18 155 mm caliber guns and 12 75 mm caliber guns!

The displacement of the Great Wall and the Yangtze River is 2,600 tons larger than that of the original four Changzi, the main guns have been increased from four to six, and the loading mechanism and gun aiming fire control system have also been greatly improved, and the comprehensive combat capability has been increased by more than 60 percent! ”

Everyone was happy to hear this, but they were very puzzled by the three ships that appeared behind.

I saw that although the tonnage of the three ships was estimated to be at least several thousand tons larger than that of the Great Wall, the deck was empty and flat, and it looked ugly in appearance from the aesthetic point of view of the battleship, not like a battleship at all, and there were some cranes that had never been seen horizontally on the side of the deck, which looked like they were used to salvage the sunken ship, and there was no large gun barrel in sight, only a few small gun tubes.

Everyone looked down on these three ships that were almost a waste of steel: "What kind of battleship is this?" ”

Hu Zhen laughed and replied personally: "This is an aircraft carrier, our secret weapon, and this is a powerful warship that will lead the next fifty years at least!" ”

The crowd immediately buzzed, and regardless of the emperor's presence, they whispered:

"This is a battleship, why can't you see a large gun tube?"

"Could it be that they are used to fire torpedoes to attack the enemy?"

"No, such a large battleship, the speed of the ship must not be fast, how can it be used for torpedo attacks?"

Hu Zhen continued:

"The Luban, Zhang Heng, and Cai Lun aircraft carriers have a standard displacement of 19,500 tons and a full load displacement of 24,600 tons, which is a kind of weaponry that is about to change the mode of naval warfare in the future.

Each of the three aircraft carriers carried 98 aircraft, including 48 bombers, 24 torpedo planes, 18 fighters, and 8 reconnaissance planes! ”

"Your Majesty, is this plane bombing like a bomber on land?"

An officer asked, the Huaxia army is very familiar with airship bombing, and also knows the use of horizontal bombers, this officer can't help but be a little disappointed in aircraft carriers, and don't understand why the emperor attaches so much importance to aircraft carriers.

That's a good question! Our army has already used bombers for combat, but because it was the first generation of aircraft, the power of the engine was insufficient, the strength and speed were not enough, and only horizontal bombing could be carried out, but now the bombers on the three aircraft carriers are the second generation, the engine power is greatly strengthened, and dive bombing can be carried out, and the mode of combat is completely different. ”

"Ahh Zhang Dajiang had communicated with the personnel of the horizontal bomber unit many times, and knew what it meant for naval warfare to be able to achieve dive bombing, so he asked very excitedly: "Your Majesty, what is the combat radius of the bombers on this aircraft carrier?" ”

"This second-generation aircraft still has short legs, the combat radius is not very far, only 280 kilometers, the longest stay time in the air is three hours, and the bomber only has two 12.7 mm heavy machine guns, a 20 aviation cannon, can only carry two 600 kg bombs for dive bombing, torpedo aircraft can only carry a 350 mm caliber 500 kg torpedo attack, both aircraft are only 340 kilometers when fully loaded, the practical ceiling is 6500 meters, these performances are not satisfactory, Further improvements are needed. ”?

Although this aircraft carrier and aircraft have reached the level of the early stage of World War II in another time and space, Hu Zhen is obviously very dissatisfied.

However, to the ears of an officer of the Huaxia Army, this is already very powerful, and a plane can carry two bombs equal to 305 mm caliber shells and bomb them from angles that the enemy does not expect, and the enemy still knows nothing about this, and if it makes a surprise attack, it will certainly be able to achieve great results.

Quick-minded people understand how much impact this will have on naval warfare? Everyone was looking forward to the fact that the Oro fleet and the Eight-Nation Allied Fleet would hurry over so that they could test the power of the aircraft carriers.

"Well, please show us the aircraft carrier!"

With an order, more than a dozen planes appeared on the deck of the aircraft carrier, and they took off one after another, flying over the target ship in battle formation.

The torpedo machine flew over the sea, dropped a torpedo a few hundred meters in front of the target ship, and then pulled up the nose and flew up.

And the bombers swooped down and dropped bombs on the target ship.

Torpedoes, bombs exploded almost simultaneously, and all made loud noises.

The target ship exploded one after another, and the fire burst into flames, but in a few minutes, it capsized and sank on the sea.

Hu Zhen asked everyone: "How is it, what do you think about it?" ”

An officer said: "This aircraft carrier is good, but its self-defense capability is too weak, and it has no armor ability, so it cannot resist the enemy's heavy artillery bombardment at all!" ”

Someone immediately retorted: "It is not the task of aircraft carriers to fire directly face to face with the enemy, it is the task of battleships and cruisers, and when aircraft carriers are exposed to enemy fire, it means that our tactical command has failed!" ”

Another officer chimed in: "Yes, that's right, the aircraft carrier should be under the tight protection of the combat ships, send out groups of aircraft, carry out intensive bombardment of the enemy, and blow up all the enemy ships into the sea to feed the fish." ”

Hu Zhen: "Yes, this view is very good, the task of aircraft carriers is to use aircraft to fight under the protection of combat ships, and only aircraft carriers can be used against aircraft carriers. ”

Everyone was looking forward to hearing this, and the use of aircraft carriers to deal a heavy blow to the Oro fleet and the Eight-Nation Allied Fleet was heavy. (To be continued.) )