The speed of the airship, relative to the land vehicle, is very fast, the two air forces soon encountered about 30 kilometers away from the city, both sides are airships, Germany has 28 airships, of which 24 are Jumbo class, 4 are Germany's own Zeppelin class, because of the relationship between the protection camp, the 24 Jumbo class will firmly guard the 4 Zeppelin class in the most central position, the camp is extremely dense, of course the speed can not go up. In addition, the German flight is slightly downwind, it is coming with the wind, and the speed difference between the small airship coming with the wind is increasing, and the speed difference between the big and small flying is beginning to increase.

Today's weather is good, it can't be said that the sky is blue, but the field of vision is extremely broad, the airship troops are equipped with telescopes, both sides have discovered each other, in the air, the huge airship has no escape, the two sides have not chosen any tactics, what ten sides ambush, layer by layer and other infantry tactics, here there is no effect at all, narrow road encounter, can only rush forward, hard to come, there is no trick at all.

The speed of the French airship has obviously added up, they are also well-trained, the small airship is much more flexible, after scattering, towards the German airship surrounded the past, compared to the large airship, the small airship moves faster, this is the French airship unit has long been trained, in the exercise, several airships composed of the exercise troops, can lightly attack in all directions of the large airship, the large airship to shoot down, and achieve victory.

But this time, the little airships hit a nail, and there is no other reason. The large airships were combined into a formation, densely packed together. It's not completely concentrated together, airtight. But there was no room for the small airship to move, and when it was ready to split the small airship and rushed forward for a while, it was found that the other party did not accelerate at all, and still maintained the original camp, pressing over like a rock.

Air warfare, in this era, is itself a cutting-edge field, even in France, only occasionally trying, all kinds of tactics are somewhat mechanical. Some took things for granted, and when they found that they were inseparable, they had lost their original camp, and they were a little flustered and then at a loss, from a whole camp to fighting separately.

The French airships did not popularize the radio system, but relied on the flag language, and when the camp was spread to a considerable extent, the command was impossible. The crew of these little airships looked excitedly at the big airships in the distance, as if these huge guys were 10 or 20 times bigger than them. That's what they did.

Mark, the commander of the central airship, was slightly anxious and looked at the nimble airship. Slightly worried, he asked Liu Dezhi: "How is it, no problem!" ”

"Rest assured. They're the food on the plate! Liu Dezhi calmly looked ahead, using a high-powered telescope. Especially the periscope placed above the airship, he can clearly see the equipment of the French airship, the French airship is a small, several meters long ordinary type, the whole is not even divided into different steam drums, or the whole body, this is an early model, once the air leaks, this airship will become an iron scale and hang down.

In terms of armament, it is not a professional pod like their Northwest Airship, and the carefully set gun emplacements seem to have casually pulled some Makqin up, some more and some less, on average, a airship has a maximum of 3. It's not that the French don't want to load, because the Maxim is too heavy for the little airship.

Liu Dezhi's calmness made Mark relax slightly, the airship next to him, especially the giant airship, is the same, with Chinese soldiers as the backbone, even the slightly flustered Germans are stable, the armor plate of the pod has long been erected, and all the cannons are also stretched out, aiming at the front, and the hovering airship provides a stable shooting platform, and some professional gunners begin to calculate the shooting yuan.

Getting closer and closer, 3,000 meters, 2,000 meters, 1,500 meters, the French airship flew forward quickly, not noticing that the German airship slowed down and got closer and closer to the airship, not realizing at all that they themselves had crashed into the northwest firing boundary.

The huge giant class, equipped with not only a machine gun, but also a more powerful 20 mm cannon, the range of this thing is far above the machine gun, Liu Dezhi was very calm in his heart, let the airship hover in the air, silently waiting.

When the French airship entered the distance of 1000 meters, the faces of those French people could already be seen, the excited French had begun to attack this side, Makqin's voice was special and sharp, countless bullets were swayed, Makqin's ultimate range was 800 meters, 1000 meters may have a certain lethality for the unprotected, but the giant class in the northwest, not only the gondola here, is armored, the upper airbag has also been treated on the surface, covered with a thin layer of polymer composite materials.

This layer of polymer composite materials is the material of later generations, and when the Northwest was handed over to Germany, there was no special mention of it, anyway, at the current level of the world, there is no decades of time, and it cannot be studied at all. This material can resist small-caliber bullets, equivalent to a homogeneous steel plate of about 3-5 mm, and it is basically impossible for Makqin to penetrate its defenses as long as it is not attacked within 200 meters.

Listening to the attack on the other side, the German soldiers in the airship were slightly excited, but the strict discipline made them steady, especially when they heard the sound of a bullet hitting the airship, but the airship did not change at all, so they breathed a sigh of relief, at this time, Liu Dezhi gave an order, and the radio waves rushed into each airship through a short space, and the red button on the radio kept flashing, and the commander of each airship said loudly: "Start attacking!" ”

1000 meters, a little far, is the absolute killing area of the machine gun, for the machine gun, but a little reluctant, it stands to reason that it should be placed closer to 200 meters, but Liu Dezhi did not dare to continue the adventure. This time the airship is for bombing, and the bombs are carried and the like, which are heavier, even if the helium is not afraid of attack, but if the small airbag is broken too much, it will also affect the stability, although the airship has a certain margin, but in the case of insufficient load-bearing, it is necessary to reduce the load-bearing, these precious aerial bombs may be a large part of the number of the next ones, and it is not good to waste them in vain.

The firing range of the general machine gun in this era is about seven or eight hundred meters, and after the northwest has been modified, the machine gun can reach 1300 meters, and the machine gun can reach 2200 meters, which is already in the absolute area. The German soldiers have long been choked enough, and now they have been given the order to fire, and they have begun to design, and the prepared cannon roared, compared to the ordinary use of 7.9 caliber Maxim, the 20 mm cannon is more powerful, with a chain of bullets that drag light bullets, which can clearly guide the direction, light spots and explosions, one after another sounded in the air,

The hit rate of the machine guns is not low, plus the French airship troops, there is no defense at all, in the face of the sudden machine gun attack, under one look, 4 ships were hit, and they were all hit by airbags.

If you change to something else, an ordinary machine gun or something, 4 ships are hit, and all of them may not be shot down, even if the French airship uses an all-body airbag, it will slowly leak. However, the giant airship uses a 20 mm cannon, and its own power is far above the ordinary machine gun, the most critical thing is the bullet, on the bullet chain with 6 bullets as a group, a drag bullet, used to guide the direction, an incendiary bomb, two ordinary bullets interval, under the high rate of fire of the machine gun, it is easier to do an ordinary bullet, once it is hit by an incendiary bomb, it is set on fire, and it encounters flammable hydrogen, how can it be better, one shot down, enough to ignite, or even explode.

Two lucky ones, under the penetration of the incendiary bomb, ignited the upper airbag, ignited the fire, after the airship lost its lift, it quickly landed downward, and the two unlucky, it was much more miserable, they didn't know if it was bad luck or something else, the incendiary bomb hit the core directly, and in the place where the most hydrogen gas in the center, there was an explosion, and the huge airbag became a dead domain, and after the explosion, it was a mess.

Under a look, the loss of 4 airships, even if it is more than 60 French airship troops, also feel very painful, how to continue, have the intention to escape, unfortunately, the German airship has been opened, with the speed of the airship, quickly forward, narrowing the distance between them, and directly ahead, it is the airship with the widest firing range, with the most weapons, at least 8 cannons per ship, at least 5 can be aimed at the front, in addition to the cannons, there are a large number of machine guns.

No matter how flexible the airship is, it takes a lot of time to steer, and in this gap of turning, another 12 airships were shot down, and the remaining airships shifted direction and began to flee in all directions, and under Liu Dezhi's order, the airships also changed camps, except for 4 Zeppelin-class and 8 Jumbo class left, the rest began to pursue. One chase and one escape, the rear continued to fire, one airship after another was shot down, basically a cannon down, just kill one, the offensive and defensive battle lasted at most 30 minutes, this World War I history, the first air battle between airships, ended with a great victory for Germany.

Germany shot down at least 37 French airships and damaged 12 of them, and these were injured, did not fall directly, most of them were forced to land, which is equivalent to saying that there were only 11 of them, and the airships that France had accumulated for many years were almost swept away, and they completely became yesterday's yellow flowers.

Achieved such a big warring state, the German airship troops, the price paid, is only 4 people slightly injured and 1 person seriously injured, as for the airship was only damaged 12 ships, most of them were minor injuries, the loss of one or two airbags, there is no major problem, you can do it after going back and repair, only one can not support, after losing part of the bombs, returned, and the rest continue to move forward. (To be continued......)