Chapter 493: Airship Battle
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Just as a fierce air battle was going on over the East China Sea, a shocking accident occurred.
Chen Zhong's East China Sea Command Headquarters was blown into rubble by bombs dropped by two airships of unknown origin.
This time, an unexpected air raid killed two guards, and Chen Zhong, Zhou Zhiguang and others were not in this headquarters in order to prepare for the general attack in the early hours of tomorrow, but were on the way to the East China Sea Fleet, and escaped this catastrophe.
This air raid not only destroyed the East China Sea Operations General Headquarters, but also bombed the military port on Chongming Island and the military airfield on Chongming Island.
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Six planes were blown up, three were seriously damaged, and more than thirty other planes took off in an emergency and landed at a makeshift military airfield.
This was a well-prepared air raid, and its goal was to bomb the military targets and operational command center of the Chinese Imperial Navy on Chongming Island.
Chen Zhong immediately instructed to quickly find out where the two submarines came from, and ordered the air force to prepare for an air attack on the two airships and the escaped airships at sea.
More than an hour later, a telegram came from the military intelligence department, saying that the two airships had been identified as US airships.
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It turned out that after the US military decided that its Pacific Fleet would continue to operate in the East China Sea, Britain and France provided the United States with two more giant military airships.
Ling Feng, minister of the Ministry of Industry, suggested that in the current mission of attacking the US airship, the H series planes could carry several high-explosive machine gun bullets newly developed by the Military Industry Department to participate in the war.
The two giant airships took off tonight after being resupplied from a US military base in the Sea of Japan.
Their mission this time was to strike at the Chenzhong Operational Command on Chongming Island, the military port on Chongming Island, and the naval aviation base.
After learning of this information, Chen Zhong ordered the naval aviation brigade to immediately formulate a retaliatory plan for attacking the two airships.
Ling Feng, minister of industry, suggested that in the mission of attacking the US airship, the planes of the H series could carry several high-explosive machine gun bullets newly developed by the Military Industry Department to participate in the war.
One of the bullets is a high-explosive bullet, and the other is a machine-gun bullet that is an incendiary bullet filled with white phosphorus.
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These bullets, if fired at the airship alone, have a limited effect.
However, once they are mixed, they become a lethal weapon.
When the high-explosive bullet penetrates the airship's airbag, it allows the leaked high-purity hydrogen to mix with the oxygen in the air.
Then, by the incendiary bullet, the gas mixture that leaked out of this large mass was detonated.
This mixed load, it should be said, is the most effective weapon against the existing airships in the world at present.
Airships flying in the air, once hit by such bullets, are basically immune.
Chen Zhong accepted this suggestion and immediately asked the aviation personnel to urgently install the bullets on the plane's machine gun.
At 3:17 a.m., the two US airships and another submarine that was staying above the US Pacific Fleet received an order from the headquarters to prepare to attack the three fleets of the Chinese Empire.
According to the information transmitted by the intelligence department of the Chinese Emperor, the three airships of the US military carried a total of 8 tons of explosives.
At 3:48 a.m., three U.S. airships were about to fly over the East China Sea Fleet, and they were about to drop explosives before turning around and flying away from the area.
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The enemy hated all the members of the two airships, and they were extremely frightened because they had witnessed the tragic scene after the ML99 airship burned.
At this time, four H-type planes of the Chinese Empire's maritime aviation group had also flown over the three US airships.
The H-8 aircraft of the Chinese Empire, after spotting the US military ML99 airship, began to approach from behind and fired a mixed bullet clip at him, but this round did not hit the giant airship.
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A minute later, the H-8 again approached the ML99 airship, aimed at his rear and fired four ammunition with mixed magazines.
This time, there was a violent bright light inside the ML99 airship. Immediately afterward, it suddenly turned into a violently burning flame, and the cloth on the outside of the airship was ignited.
Fifteen seconds later, ML99 became a large fireball that burned violently, slowly falling to the surface of the sea.
In the process of falling, a large explosion occurred. The entire fireball, split apart, burst out in an instant.
When ML99 crashed into the sea, ML97 and ML69 airships were directly in front of it.
Like an illusory landscape at night, the ML99 airship burned in a spectacular arc on the surface of the East China Sea.
After learning that the H-8 had shot down a US airship, Colonel Nangong Wentian immediately ordered the planes participating in the battle to run all their engines at full power to pursue the other two US airships that were preparing to flee like desert.
The combat soldiers of these two US airships witnessed the downing of the ML99 airship, and they were terrified, and they received orders from the US military command to continue bombing the three sea fleets of the Chinese Empire, otherwise, it would be impossible for the US forces to win this battle in the East China Sea.
The psychology of the American soldiers on the ML97 and ML69 airships is still shrouded in a shadow of terror.
However, the commanders of the US military are very confident. In their opinion, these two airships are different from the ML99 airship.
If an excellent naval pilot skillfully pilots such an airship, he will definitely be able to evade the attack of the Chinese Imperial Air Force and complete the bombing mission of the Chinese Imperial Fleet.
As a result, when the two airships approached the sky over the Sea of Japan, they reluctantly turned around and sailed towards the East China Sea combat area.
However, this risky bombing campaign did not meet the expectations of the US commanders.
Due to the excessive nervousness of the airship pilots, all their bombshells were dropped into the waters of the East China Sea.
The four planes of the Huaxia Imperial Air Brigade waiting in the East China Sea area fired high-explosive bullets and incendiary bombs violently, quickly penetrating the hulls of ML97 and ML69 airships.
These high-explosive mixed bullets caused serious structural damage to the airship, and the ML97 and ML69 airships also burned.
All the members of the two airships, they were terrified because they had witnessed the tragic scene of the ML99 airship burning before.
They jumped into the sea one after another, and this time, four soldiers died, and the rest were salvaged by the Bohai Fleet and became prisoners of the Chinese Empire.
After the violent burning, the ML97 and ML69 airships exploded quickly in mid-air, and the huge flames stained the sea surface of the East China Sea red, as clear as day.
Chen Zhong ordered the three fleets of the Chinese Empire, as well as the submarine brigade and the air group, to quickly rest their ranks and prepare to launch a general attack on the US fleet in the early morning of the second day.
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The officers and men of the US Pacific Fleet witnessed with their own eyes the great air battle of the airships at a glance, which was thrilling.
Most of their officers and men no longer have much hope for this war with a huge disparity in strength.
However, the top commanders of the US military do not think so.
After receiving the news of the downing of the airship as soon as possible, the US Navy Command immediately ordered the reinforcements of the US fleet, which was still sailing towards the East China Sea, to speed up and join up with the US Pacific Fleet in the East China Sea as soon as possible, so as to prepare for a retaliatory attack on the fleet of the Chinese Empire.