"All boats, all boats pay attention, the ground observation post has found a huge number of airships of the Hubei army, which is flying towards the battlefield, and the combat airships are preparing to meet the enemy's airships!"

This war was a matter of life and death in the capital of the Chinese Empire, and General Du Ligao of the Air Force rushed back from the front line in Vladivostok overnight, and now personally boarded the airship to direct the operation in the air; after receiving the news of the appearance of the Hubei army's airship group, he immediately made combat arrangements, separating the combat airship group from the planes, and the combat airship was on the outside, shielding the bomber group and continuing to bomb the Hubei army.

Having learned the lesson of the great defeat of the US army by the Chinese army's airships, the Hubei army was equipped with 7.62 mm caliber Makqin water-cooled heavy machine guns on all the airships, and some airship pods were also inlaid with steel plate armor and equipped with as many as 13 or 4 heavy machine guns.

However, compared with the airships of the Chinese army, the airships of the Hubei army are bulky and slow, and there is no professional combat airship or bombing airship, and they lack communication tools, so they can only use signal flares to indicate the actions of large boat groups, and the command experience in large-scale air battles is almost zero, and the commanders of the Hubei army only take it for granted to command operations.

But the Hubei soldiers didn't know this, and when the Hubei airship appeared, it caused a stir in the Hubei army position on the ground:

"Haha, the airship of our Great Oros Empire is here, and now there are yellow-skinned monkeys that look good!"

"Kill the yellow-skinned monkey's air snitch!"

"Oros will never be defeated!"

"Ula, don't look at the sky, we're going to follow the airship to kill the yellow-skinned monkey on the ground!"

The airships of the Hubei army in the air also sounded a wave of "Ula", as if as soon as their airship group arrived, they could immediately control the battlefield, and the enemy would be swept away by them.

But what happened next made the self-proclaimed well-informed Hubei Air Force stunned: "What kind of flying machine is that?" Is that a cigar made of metal? How can there still be a pair of hard wings? ”

"Oh God! It's so fast, at least 100 knots per hour! How could a yellow-skinned monkey have such a mysterious devilish thing? ”

The commander of the Hubei army was so anxious that his head was full of fire, and he shouted and ordered: "Don't care what the devil is, the heavy machine gun will fire immediately and beat this devil in the air to pieces!" ”

In fact, the altitude of these planes is higher than that of the airship, and it is still in the space outside the range of heavy machine guns, but the Hubei army, which lacks experience in air combat, has a visual error in the air at this time, and they fire in a panic outside the range.

The heavy machine gun bullets equipped with tracer bullets at intervals were like bright fire whips, flying in the air to the end of the range and then falling to the ground, which had no effect on the planes of the Huaxia Army at all.

"Lao Tzu hasn't done it yet, this old man has made the first move, it's just looking for death!" Seeing this, the pilots of the Huaxia Army scolded one after another, and with a swing of the nose, they aimed at the group of airships of the Hubei army.

"Shoot the fuck!"

The bombers of the Huaxia Army were equipped with two 23 mm aviation machine guns and two 12.7 mm heavy machine guns, and the firing range was greatly reduced compared with that of the Hubei army, and the 7.62 mm heavy machine guns that were moved to the airships were much longer and more powerful.

For the Hubei army, what is even worse is that the plane of the Huaxia Army has a higher space position, and when the two sides pass by in a staggered manner, they enter the dead end of the heavy machine gun in the pod of their airship, and they cannot hit the plane of the Huaxia Army at all.

The Hubei army's huge group of thousands of airships, because of the hasty preparation time, many of them were indiscriminately filled, a large part of them used inflatable soft airships, and even used flammable and explosive hydrogen to fill, and the Huaxia Army's aviation machine guns turned into an aerial turkey covered in fire after a single shell or a few incendiary bombs from heavy machine guns.

The planes of the Huaxia Army reached a speed of more than 100 knots, and they opened fierce fire around the Hubei army airship group, and the airships on the edge of the Hubei army airship group burst into flames and exploded one after another.

For a time, the formation of the Hubei army's airship group was disturbed by more than 100 planes, especially those "air fortresses" with many weapons and strong defenses, which were large and stupid, and were squeezed into the middle of the airship group, and there was no way to form a network with superior firepower to stop the attack of the Huaxia army.

Behind the planes, the small hard combat airships of the Huaxia Army swarmed at a speed of about 70 knots, using 23 mm machine guns and 12.7 mm heavy machine guns to fire fiercely outside the range of the Hubei army's 7.62 mm heavy machine guns, causing the Hubei army's airship group to mourn.

More and more Hubei airships fell from the sky in flames, and several planes of the Huaxia Army were shot, but the key parts of the planes were designed to be protected by armor, and the 7.62 mm bullets of the Hubei army could hardly pose any major threat.

The airships of the Huaxia Army also have some shots, but most of the airships of the Huaxia Army are hard airships, all of which are filled with helium and other inert gases, even if they are hit by dozens of bullets, they are just leaking, and there is no danger of falling immediately, as long as they can fly back to the base to repair it, everything will be fine.

In the fierce air battle, several unlucky airships of the Huaxia Army were hit by intensive bullet fire of the Hubei army and crashed, and the personnel on the airship jumped out of the pod at the last moment, pulled open the parachute backpack on their backs, and were carried by parachutes to the ground safely, and the casualties were slight.

Most of the airships of the Huaxia Army were not in danger of being hit by the enemy and falling, but because of the protection of the parachute, everyone fought without scruples, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became, and the airships of the Hubei army kept falling, and the rest of the airships were also frightened and fled in all directions.

The speed of the Hubei army's airships was generally lower than 40 knots, and once the formation dispersed, only the Chinese army's aircraft and airships with a speed of more than 40 knots were slaughtered.

Due to the appearance of the Hubei airships, the Huaxia Air Force temporarily weakened the large-scale bombing, which delayed the collapse of the Hubei army on the ground, but after the Hubei airship group was dispersed, the battle on the ground was also time to be seen.

Hu Zhen had been standing on a high ground to watch the battle, and a Hubei airship crashed a few dozen meters away, causing a large explosion, and the officers around him were so frightened that they hurriedly dragged him into a pillbox.

Hu Zhen didn't want to embarrass the attendant officers around him and Su Wenzhen, so he walked into the bunker, which greatly compressed the field of observation.

The voices of the generals demanding an attack came from the radio station: "Please send armored cars to attack the enemy cavalry!" ”

Su Wenzhen looked up at Hu Zhen, because this battle was very hasty, the Huaxia Army did not have time to designate the supreme commander of the battlefield, nominally the General Staff was in command, but in fact Hu Zhen was the supreme commander, of course Su Wenzhen had to obey Hu Zhen.

Hu Zhen withdrew the telescope outside the observation hole of the bunker, nodded and said, "Now should be the right opportunity, let our cars and iron horses attack!" ”

Su Wenzhen said to the communication radio: "Agree with the armored car sortie!" ”

As soon as the order was issued, countless car engines immediately roared from the position behind the bunker, and the ground trembled slightly. (To be continued.) )