【2nd Update】

At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 11th, the Royal Navy notification ship Mitri had just sailed into the outer islands of Sin Chau Harbor when it was captured by more than six Shanghai-class destroyers that suddenly appeared, and obtained important military information from the report ship of the Royal Navy 200 kilometers away.

Originally, in his opinion, Chinese suddenly ran to the heavily guarded Sin Chew Harbor, and the only result was probably to return under the counterattack of the impregnable coastal batteries, but the appearance of these aerial weapons, which had never appeared in his expectations, suddenly subverted his original confidence......

More than 30 huge airships let out a terrifying humming sound, slowly passing over the captured Mitri notification ship, outside the huge airship pod, the black hole hole of the long-barreled heavy machine gun stretched out under the pod, and what is even more terrifying is that almost with the naked eye can be clearly distinguished, directly below each airship, hanging a huge bomb that is almost half the size of the pod.

These huge flying monsters quickly rose into the air, and finally formed a double column in the sky, and quickly flew towards the harbor in the distance, and in almost less than 10 minutes, Major Maka saw another group of pale blue airships flying up from the huge flat-topped merchant ships in the distant sea, and around those ships, a row of huge battleships with billowing black smoke were raising their high heavy guns and adjusting their formation in a hurry...... And on the periphery, the kind of high-speed destroyers that round up themselves can be seen everywhere.

"Beware, attack the cruisers in the harbor that may be equipped with anti-aircraft firepower first!" Chen Yu, commander of the first airship formation, sat in the firing position on the left side of the narrow pod, and the space and load of the attacking Tianzhou II airship were not small, but. The airship force made a lot of comments. The comfort of sitting is never included in it. Therefore, even if Chen Yu is already the commander of the 4 airship squads, the ideal position is the MG heavy machine gun position with an extended body.

"Boss, understood!" Bombardier Ma Xiaocong is engrossed in carefully wiping the pointed bombs on the slide rails around him, as his most capable weapon, these big guys have never earned the greatest glory from the airship troops.

"Lao Chen, I heard from the fellow people in the headquarters that the British fleet has gone to Sumatra. It will take at least a day to rush back, and when they come back, we can all sweep the supply tank of their hometown back and forth seven or eight times, I guess ...... The British will be hungry then! "The airship operator Chen Tianming is Chen Yu's old partner and fellow countryman, and he talks a lot of nonsense before every war!

"Tianming, you have to grasp the height, the headquarters has asked us to pay attention many times, the British can envy our airships, and they have spent a lot of money to buy airship skills from our machine factory, and in view of the Sino-Japanese war. Before the war, the firepower of the battleship was refitted, and it is said that there were anti-aircraft guns. We can't be careless......" Chen Yu didn't forget to nag again, but after finishing speaking, he saw that his old partner didn't answer his words, which was a little strange.

"Tianming, did you listen to my words...... I'm going to take part in the triumphal ceremony of our Pacific Fleet's victory over the British, but don't let us ......."

He didn't finish speaking, but he saw that Chen Tianming had already turned his head with a strange expression, "Old Chen, come over and take a look, how did I see something...... Fly in the sky ahead of us! ”

"Flying ......" Chen Yu was also stunned when he heard it, it seems that there is only the Tianzhou I light reconnaissance airship of the reconnaissance battalion that can fly in the sky here, but in order to be secretive, the Tianzhou I reconnaissance airship flies at a much higher altitude than the Tianzhou II combat airship according to the rules...... He immediately climbed to the front compartment and peered into the distance through the observation port.

Chen Tianming was really not mistaken, his flight altitude was now more than 2,500 meters, and in the sky inside the port, about a few hundred meters lower than his flight altitude, there was indeed a gray thing flying sideways...... He immediately took out his binoculars, and when he observed the target in the distance again, he was surprised to find that it was indeed an airship, but compared with his own Tianzhou series, the shape of the airship on the opposite side seemed to be somewhat different.

But there is no doubt that although Chen Yu is observing from the top down, he is still fully sure that it is definitely not his own person...... Since it's not an airship at home, it must be British...... This was a big surprise to him!

"Tianming...... Keep up, close the distance, I'm ...... confirm" 1 Second, Chen Yu has decided to make a little extra increase for his combat plan, anyway, it's just a matter of convenience!

"No problem at all, sit tight!" Chen Tianming naturally understood the meaning of his partner, as the ruler of the sky of the entire Great China, the airship troops were somewhat lonely, and now there was an unexpected opponent, which was undoubtedly a very interesting thing, the airship turned its direction slightly, and immediately slowly dived towards the distant target.

From the sky to the approach, it was almost a few minutes, and after getting closer, Chen Yu immediately confirmed that this must be a British airship, the overall shape of this British, compared with the cone shape of the Chinese airship, the British airship as a whole is also cone-shaped, but the whole airship looks more like a flattened hot air balloon, especially the position directly above the pod, because of the relationship between the pod, it was pulled down an obvious groove.

The British airship was obviously not aware of its dangerous situation, and was still flying slowly over the harbor, as a result, Chen Yu and this guy chased after him from behind without mercy, and after the other party put it into the aiming circle of the MG heavy machine gun on the side, he pressed the trigger sharply, and the canvas bullet bag immediately jumped rapidly.

In addition to the special lengthening of the barrel, the MG heavy machine gun used by the airship unit has also adjusted the army's sighting machine to an aiming circle to facilitate shooting on the move, and more importantly, the improvement of the heavy machine gun cartridge chain, the bullet on the canvas bullet belt, is configured according to the rule of 5 ordinary rounds, 1 incendiary bomb, and 1 blasting shell.

With the dull sound of machine-gun fire, the British airship, which had been caught in the aiming circle, apparently realized the sudden doom and began to turn in panic, trying to find the direction of the bullets. But. Until now. It was obviously too late, and as the bullets continued to hit the other party's somewhat strange airship, a cloud of blue fire suddenly appeared behind the side of the airship, and the Englishman's airship fell diagonally towards the sea with the flames.

"Mother, I still want to run like this...... Finally killed ......" Chen Yu slapped the hot sleeve of the heavy machine gun and roared excitedly, "Tianming, it's time for us to get down to business...... Colt. We're the first bomb, don't you lose the face of our No. 1 boat, do you hear that! ”

"Boss, don't worry, as long as Brother Tianming gets the airship on target, I will pack the ticket to let the British battleship be ruined...... The practice bullet we threw ...... The power is so big when it hits the ground...... Not to mention the 700-kilogram big guy we hung today......"

"Attention...... There are Brits firing underground! At this moment, the airship turned its direction violently, and Chen Tianming's voice made Chen Yu nervous, and he looked sideways from the observation point next to the shooting position. Sure enough, on several battleships clearly visible in the harbor. Observing the obvious shooting fire, he casually pointed, there were at least four or five places, and even on the port battery, there was also a gunfire at this time, and the gunfire that he could clearly see at an altitude of 2,500 meters was obviously not a small weapon.

The airship unit, which has never been subjected to real air firepower, has just experienced the first real air battle, and successfully shot down a small British airship, but he did not expect this big movement to immediately attract a counterattack from the British, from Chen Yu's position, in addition to seeing the ground to the sky firepower point, but there is no obvious trajectory at all, which makes him feel somewhat depressed.

But at least, for now, it seems that the huge airship force behind him is safe and sound, and there seems to be no danger of being hit, and this situation is exactly in line with the news released by the fleet command, and the British have indeed built anti-air weapons...... Chen Yu pondered for a moment, and immediately made a gesture!

Sin Chew Port is a large island with an area of more than 20 square kilometers surrounded by water, which also creates an extremely favorable defense system for the entire Sin Chew Port, the British have operated the navy and harbor for many years, and naturally know this way, after the establishment of the Straits Settlements, due to this favorable terrain, soon, a huge naval fortress was built on the island.

After the establishment of the battery, which is equipped with a large number of artillery pieces and can make full use of the advantages of the island for defense, from the perspective of the Far East Fleet, relying on the naval fleet in the port, any attempt to attack the port of Xingzhou will be flanked by the islands and shore artillery, and at the same time, the heavy artillery and torpedo boat units of the warships defending in the port will deal a fatal blow to the enemy, plus the effective defense of the strait of the island, it can be said that this naval supply depot has absolute reliability.

But ten minutes later, Colonel Thomson, who was in charge of the defense of Sin Chew Harbor, immediately realized that all the previous military speculations of the Royal Navy now seemed to be extremely ignorant military jokes, and the warships anchored in the harbor and a large number of British merchant ships were mixed in the harbor, but they became the easiest targets for a large number of Chinese airships from the sky.

He had never seen such a helpless battle situation, and the more than 10 Royal Navy warships built in the 70s and 80s were moored throughout the harbor, armed with everything from 4-pounder guns to powerful 13-inch guns, but they were completely helpless against the Chinese airships that were spinning around in the sky and throwing bombs.

Even the anti-aircraft long-barreled machine gun, which was newly modified before the war, did not seem to have any noticeable effect despite being equipped with large 20mm caliber ammunition...... As a result, these battleships, equipped with anti-aircraft firepower, were unfortunate to be taken care of, and after the first wave of bombardment, which lasted 30 minutes, six cruisers and gunboats in the harbor were sunk by bombs that hit them directly.

A large number of British merchant ships and the merchant ships that had been originally recruited obviously did not expect such a blow, and many merchant ships were pressurized by the fire and tried to escape, but they were hit by bombs falling from the sky, igniting a sky-high fire...... And what finally ended the air attack was a bomb that was so large that it was staggering.

The Chinese airship forces slowly moved in line to the island's fortified batteries, and then let the giant bomb, which couldn't even fit into the magazine, rain into the sky...... The first 700-kilogram bomb crashed directly through the surface fortifications of the fort, smashed into the huge tunnel inside the fort, and then exploded into a huge explosion that made the entire island tremble.

The violent explosion directly collapsed the small half of the turret and the wall on the west side of the fort, and the nearly 100 defenders of the fortress stationed there at that time almost disappeared as if the world had evaporated......

By the time the second batch of airships flew into the harbor again, the entire British battery had been baptized with bombs that had never been seen before, and even the commander of the fortress, Major Hessel, was killed in the explosion, and the entire port defense was in chaos. (To be continued......)