On the border between Germany and Belgium, a very ordinary hill, which is a very common hill in Europe, a simple granite structure, with a very strong hardness, after knowing the requirements of the northwest exercise, in the eagerness, there is no suitable permanent defense line, those are in use, there is no reason to abandon it for an exercise, this is a workaround that a young staff officer thought of, bare granite ground, draw an area about the size of a fort, and inform the other party with clear markings, Then, based on the destruction of this granite, the power of the attack was finally assessed.

However, after careful consideration, especially considering the layout of the fortress of Liège, they chose to lay an armor plate equivalent to 180 mm of homogeneous steel on top of the granite, if it can penetrate it and cause great damage to the granite, this attack ability is very strong, because in this era, most of the fortresses are considered to be horizontal protection, and there is very little protection in the air at the top, after all, there are few shells that can directly hit the top.

When Crook informed Zhang Ze that the location had been found, Zhang Ze's preparations had been completed, and the engineer urgently equipped a giant airship, which was a mature airship in the northwest, with a load of up to 30 tons, with perfect self-defense firepower and bomb sights, which were just bomb sights made according to mathematical principles, and under the skilled elite bombardiers, the hit rate was extremely high.

The 32 crew members, plus a few staff officers who were curious about the airdrop, boarded the airship together, and the airship headed towards the German-Belgian border, because it was within the German border, and the airship was for the Germans. It's not a big deal, so it's relatively calm along the way. Only German officers, for the airship on the various aircraft qì. Ask East and West.

The airship arrived at the exercise area at a speed of about 60 kilometers in less than 2 hours, and the surrounding area had been completely cleared by the Seventh Army, and there was no one within 50 kilometers of the surrounding area. More than a dozen generals gathered together to observe the entire exercise with telescopes, including Moltke Jr., the chief of staff of the army.

Moltke Jr. is Schlieffen's successor, and he also admires Schlieffen's genius plan very much, but the whole plan is still questionable and worth scrutinizing, so it did not continue, and now, the Northwest declares. has the ability to make up for the shortcomings in this plan and make it more perfect, even if he has some disbelief in his heart, he still rushes here. It was the mule that the horse came out to slip around, and the northwest also used real strength to show that they have strength. A number of innovations have already been imperceptibly elevated to Germany's combat effectiveness.

"It's coming. It seems to be a little different from our Zeppelin! Moltke looked through his binoculars at the giant airship in the distance. Unlike Zeppelin, which is a perfect circle, this one is flat and oval, which is better fluid, easier to reduce air resistance, and with strong propulsion and spiral warp, it is much faster than Zeppelin, easily reaching a maximum speed of 80 km/h.

"Yes, the top speed is about 30% higher than Zeppelin, and under normal circumstances, small combat airships can't catch up with his speed!"

"The protection is very tight, there is a machine gun on it!" Moltke said in a little surprise in the telescope.

On the top of the airship, where people can't go up, a few machine guns are also arranged, so that the defense of the entire airship has no dead ends.

The following are all soldiers, very clear, when the machine gun forms a complete network, how much power will there be, the most familiar with the number of airships jù Crook plays the role of commentary, elaborated on some of the numbers of airships, and told the generals that on the airship, there are 10 aerial bombs stored, this time it will be aimed at 6 targets to drop bombs, to see the accuracy and destructive power.

The airship gradually approached the predetermined area, and began to climb sharply, which made the officers below strange for a while, even Crook didn't understand, this Northwest really hasn't explained, the Big Mac airship because of the use of a more excellent structure, the lift margin is also more, the ceiling of the Zeppelin is 3350 meters, but the Big Mac can reach more than 5000 meters, because of the relationship between sights and calculators, taking into account different factors such as wind, 1000 meters and 2000 meters more, There is no obvious difference in the hit of a stationary target, but because of the gravitational acceleration brought by the higher altitude, it has a stronger penetration ability, so the shooters are ordered to drop the bomb at the ceiling.

Finally, when it exceeded 5000 meters, the bombardier began to prepare, 1200 kg of aerial bombs, not one or two people can carry it, but the northwest design of the airship, plus the bombing device, is semi-mechanized, as long as the bomb is sent into the orbit, automatically through the bomb hole at the bottom of the airship cabin to drop the bomb, and the shooters began to calculate the wind, altitude distance, these are under the excellent optical sight, very accurate, it only took a few minutes to complete, Then, in a relatively stationary state, the airship began to drop bombs.

1200 kg of aerial bombs, the diameter is not very large, especially at an altitude of 5000 meters, the drop movement is not big, if it is not for them with telescopes to keep an eye on, it is almost not easy to find, with the excited shouts of several generals, the speed of the bomb is getting faster and faster, more than 30 seconds later, almost with a speed of more than 300 meters per second, accurately hit one of the targets.

More than a ton of aerial bombs, with a speed of more than 300 meters per second to hit the armor plate, the penetration is amazing, the unique design of the armor-piercing material in the front section, instantly 180 mm of average steel plate to penetrate, and then the trigger work, huge bandaging, exploding inside the steel plate, more than 800 kilograms of T{N}T power, enough to be earth-shattering, a mushroom cloud rises, countless dust, stones, etc., all fly around.

This is the first, 6 targets, the distance between each other is not short, the longest is almost 700 meters, the shortest is 300 meters, originally on the move, you can also drop bombs, but the hit rate will be a little lower, in order to ensure the hit rate, the pitchers in the northwest chose the most stable synchronous stationary bomb dropping, the time of bomb throwing, as little as 5 minutes, more than 8 minutes, 6 bombs, it took 40 minutes to complete all the bomb throwing process, all of them are a hit, the hit rate is as high as 100 percent!

After the six targets were confirmed to have hit, the personnel above the airship reported to the lower level with flags, and after receiving a positive answer, the airship left, and the surrounding German Army went up to clean up and inspect the exercise area, and Moltke and others came up one after another to observe the results of the exercise.

In fact, just now in the telescope, Moltke and others have recognized this power, everyone knows that a ton of things thrown from the head, as long as the hit rate is reached, the lethality of the permanent fortifications is very amazing, even if it is a reinforced concrete structure, the top is the weakest place, a ton of large iron thrown down, it will produce huge damage, not to mention that there are hundreds of kilograms of fried YAO, but for the sake of safety, it is better to come up and take a look.

The first is the place where the bomb was dropped for the first time, at this time it was already a mess, penetrating the steel plate and part of the granite, entering the internal explosion of the bomb, completely turning this place into a 3 meters deep, 4 meters square deep pit, the steel plate has been blown away, dozens of meters away, I saw a steel plate full of holes, if this is a fortification, the fortification, artillery, and the people inside, are all finished.

"Look here, it's so penetrating!" The last one that an officer went to see first, it was a special, uncharged aerial bomb, which would not explode, but it could be clearly seen that its penetrating power had penetrated through the 180MM steel plate and penetrated into the granite almost 80 centimeters, which was equivalent to a reinforced concrete structure two or three meters thick, which proved from the side that almost no fortress could withstand such an attack.

The generals on the scene were speechless for a while, as generals, they were in the battle, the most considered is to face the fortress, if there is no large-caliber heavy artillery, the army will be very hard to attack the fortress, but now, the airship is enough to solve, during which a general muttered, the speed is too slow, but no one pays attention to him, that's right, when the airship is looking for these gun positions, the speed is a little slow, but the accuracy of solving a qiē, a shot to solve the problem, even if it is a little slower, it is acceptable, a little bit of fixed-point removal, Otherwise, even if you bombard with a 420 mm heavy gun, it is not a single cannon, and it will take longer to calculate, and the airship has an advantage that the army heavy artillery cannot match, that is, the all-terrain crossing and the speed of catching up with the train, which is too much of an advantage compared with the slow, only able to pull the horse and drag the army mortar.

Unlike others, Moltke's eyes flickered, and the Northwest used practical actions and iron-clad facts to solve the two biggest loopholes in Schlieffen's plan, the ability to attack fortifications and logistical supplies, with airships, as long as this kind of heavy aerial bomb is there, a qiē fortress will become a paper paste, if 24 airships have such capabilities, if several ships go out together, any fortress will be breached, then Schlieffen's plan will become a perfect plan.

"How many of these aerial bombs have been shipped from the northwest, we want all of them, and in the next order, we will purchase a large number of them, and we will have as many as we want!" Moltke's order, the end of this exercise, but also the army's point of view recognized the effectiveness of the airship, after rushing back to Berlin as fast as possible, Moltke, Tirpitz, the prime minister, some high-ranking of the army and navy, all entered the German palace, closed-door consultations for a full 2 days, only then reached a unified opinion, countless radio waves through guò radio and wired telegrams, sent to key areas, and the personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with secret orders, boarded the train to Austria-Hungary, The German warplanes started slowly. (To be continued......)