Chapter 764: Battle of Liege (3)

The 28 airships separated after entering the sky above the fortress of Liège, 12 of the fortresses around the perimeter of Liège, an average of 2 aimed at one target, and the 4 small zeppelins in the center, they did not have bombardiers or bombs, but they were equipped with something more important, wireless telegraphy.

The military use of wireless telegraphy was started from the Balkan Wars, and it played a good role in some specific places, but he needed to rely on a lot of things, which were installed on these airships, and could transmit simple signals, such as one, two, three, four, five, and other code names, and then these code names represented different meanings, in the absence of walkie-talkies and reliable wireless communications, this was the best choice, just like that, each command also needs to be repeated five times in a row, and there are more than 4 times the same, is considered a valid command.

The radio of this era, because of the limitations of various electronic components, the reliability is quite low, to achieve such an effect, or in Germany to take out all the strength, some key structures, or under the northwest of the point, can be barely solved, because of the transmission power and acceptance effect of the trouble, the packet drop rate is relatively high, but in the range of acceptance, the launch end composed of 4 airships, within a range of less than 5 kilometers, is enough, and it is not a battleship decisive battle of precise control, In the skies over Belgium, airships have no opponents, and they can prepare at leisure, and it doesn't matter if they make a slight mistake.

2 airships hung overhead, and the Belgian troops below, some had no choice, they knew that these big guys in the air had bad intentions. But there was nothing I could do about it, and I watched it hover over its head again. Eventually hovered down, below each one. They were all the largest artillery pieces in the fortress, and the commander of the fortress and the Belgian officers arrived intuitively, something was wrong, but no one knew what to do, what these airships were going to do.

Looking at the calm airship from afar, the interior is not calm, and all the crew members have begun to make final preparations. Wipe some mechanical equipment, open some bombs necessary insurance, these preparations need to be meticulous and meticulous, any problem in any place, it is ruined.

The soldiers of the Northwest are all veterans, and the Germans are also quite obedient and meticulously completed, and the time is getting closer and closer to 3 o'clock. The commander on each airship has been looking at his watch non-stop, about 3 o'clock, the receiving end of each airship. The radio sounded, and 12 messages were received in succession. The correspondent clearly reported the request, and the attack began. Freedom bombing.

It was already hovering in the air, aiming at the turret in the fortress. Especially the main heavy artillery batteries, the weather conditions today are good. There is not much wind, and the visibility is good, which is the best time to aim and drop the bomb, and the aim that has been done a long time ago is almost not necessary to continue aiming, and the bombardier, after a little confirmation, commanded loudly: "Drop the bomb!" ”

The semi-mechanical sight, fixed the bomb, and then slowly through the bomb hole below the guò began to drop the bomb, the first airship dropped the bomb downward, then the second, the third, a ton or so of the bomb, not very big, one meter long, dozens of centimeters in diameter, at a distance of 1500 meters looks small, but the huge thing was dropped, everyone hid in the fortress, everyone knows, a few stones thrown in the air, there is a huge lethality, let alone such a big thing.

It is difficult for the airship to be smashed with stones, which is not only the idea of the commanders on the front line, but also the thoughts of the soldiers, but when the bombs are getting faster and faster, some sensitive officers no longer think so, because in the telescope, it has been clearly seen that this is an industrial product with wings and a finely crafted zuò, not the kind of shoddy stone or iron. At a distance of 1500 meters, the objects fell from the air, that is, for more than 20 seconds, their speed continued to increase, and did not accelerate to a speed of about 300 meters as in the test, but there were also more than 100 meters per second, whistling by the bombs, with a special screaming sound, the momentum was very amazing.

The tip of the bomb hit a huge turret, which is a fortress structure of the fort, a total of 4 155 mm guns are distributed, which is one of the important protective firepower of the fortress, but he was a ton of bombs, from top to bottom, smashed a solid, 1.5-meter-thick reinforced concrete structure, under the direct impact of the impact of the bomb, like paper paste, the direct bomb crashed into the interior of the fortress, several unlucky gunners, too late to dodge, was directly stoned to death,

The rest of the survivors, only had time to flash a thought in their minds, fortunately not smashed, the impact and the time switch were almost at the same time, more than 700 kilograms of T(N) T was directly detonated, the huge explosive force, the qualified more than 30 meters square radius of the fortress to directly shroud, such a fortress, in the internal defense, is not as good as the external defense, this fortress was directly torn apart by the shock wave of this bombing YAO, in which more than 30 people, not even a little reaction, Directly overwhelmed by the explosion, the dead can no longer die.

"This can't be?" The commander of the fortress of Liège looked at this qiē dumbfounded, as if everything in front of him was magic, the fortress's fortress, 4 155 guns, was his biggest support, and it was also the strongest indefinite attack on Germany, so it was killed, the effect of the black-looking, irregularly shaped thing, was it magic, or some miracle. But when the same miracles happened one after another in the fortress, one by one to clear the batteries of the outer fortresses, he collapsed to the ground, and it was finished, which was probably his only thought.

The same impossibility was also shouted out of Emmihi's mouth, the difference was that his mood was extremely excited, such a powerful bomb, through the guò telescope, the first projection of 24 airships, at least 22 hits, that is, 22 of the top fortresses were killed, at least 80 guns were dumb, this is a huge blow for a land fortress, and the pressure they received when attacking will be reduced a lot, it seems that the staff really got something terrible, If there is more of this thing, 100, 1000, it will be no problem to sweep the whole of France.

Enmich doesn't know the price of these airships, a 5 million or so, 10 is the price of a king-class, maybe in a specific field, 10 airships play a huge role, but unlike the comprehensive and important battleships, Germany is unlikely to be open, a thousand or even more to buy airships, even if they are built, they will be built in a limited amount.

The happiness of Enmich continues, and the nightmare for the commander of the fortress continues, the huge airship above, as if a hen lays eggs, constantly drops things, such a salvo has been carried out a total of 20 times, 480 bombs, all of a sudden the fortress of Liège has fallen into a desperate situation, more than 200 fire points, more than 500 small-caliber cannons, have been cleared, especially in the back, after cleaning up the artillery, those fortresses and protection are not in the situation, I don't know what's going on, the Belgian soldiers, they didn't dare to hide in the fortress anymore, so they had to run out and make a bigger blow, the 50-kilogram anti-infantry bomb appeared, this time, it was not a precise projection, but a dense projection of the range, according to the positioning of the bomb, when the speed increased to a certain range dù, the automatic opening explosion, almost all exploded at a height of about 2-7 meters, thousands of steel balls, pushed by the power of the fire YAO, rushed to the dense crowd, resulting in huge damage.

Screaming, rolling, and nowhere to escape, this is the current situation of the Belgian soldiers in the fortress of Liège, they are not even able to survive, those soldiers who have escaped several rounds of attacks, and those who are lucky enough to survive are lying there trembling timidly, and their souls are scattered with fear.

The airship raged for a total of 2 hours, starting from 3 o'clock, almost to 5 o'clock, it was over, it can be said that the results were brilliant, most of the fortresses and fortresses have been completely blown up, the battery is not even a shadow, some secret machine gun positions, also rotated, the most important thing is the defenders, from the outside, there is no trace of anyone moving, even if the airship finished dropping the bomb, slowly retreating backwards, there is no wave, a wave of extremely strong attacks, created a brilliant result.

The legion in the distance, stunned and watched the excitement, all the senior officers, have undergone a baptism of purgatory, without personal experience, without personal seeing, it is never possible to know, how powerful an airship is, these hiding in the fortress, there is thick protection, and even there is enough thick steel protection are all cleared by these airships one by one, if they encounter airships, they will do so.

Some cutting-edge officers were directly brought into themselves, and after thinking about it carefully, they found that really, if they faced such an attack, there would be only one result, the army marching in dense camps, two or three search airships could send them back to their hometowns, as for the scattered, it was not much better, and the feeling of being beaten passively was something that every officer did not want to see, which represented senseless death and a futile struggle, and the Belgian soldiers who were currently hiding from the ubiquitous air power in the fortress of Liège, Such a wretched creature.

After this battle, I don't know how many army officers changed their views and began to support the air force, without the protection of airships, rash marching is a suicidal choice, and it has become the mainstream, and the officers on the front line have asked the staff to take necessary countermeasures against airships, otherwise, they refuse to march without houses.

However, Enmishi knew that this battle was over, and his soldiers, as long as one charge, could take the fortress of the next day, but he did not give a direct order, stared blankly at the distant airship, and then turned to look at the fortress of Liège, as if he needed to wait a little longer. (To be continued......)