Section 126 The world's first air battle

Delcasse didn't know that the clown in his eyes had already stood on the wall of Liaoyang at this time, and was spreading the news of the attack on Liaoyang to the world. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Russian army in Liaoyang also had little morale.

At this time, the Russian army left in the northeast was only 300,000, and Linevich had already withdrawn the general people to the country, only the First Army remained in the northeast, but the main force was in Harbin, Liaoyang and Mukden were only 50,000, and the 100,000 people in these two places were actually planning to retreat, they only planned to stay 100,000 in the northeast, and after the other forces were withdrawn, Kontrachenko, the new governor of the Far East, and the 100,000 troops under him would be responsible for the defense.

So the soldiers of Liaoyang and Fengtian, they have been waiting for the withdrawal of the army in Harbin after it will be them, at this time they really don't want to fight, they all heard that there is chaos in the country, in fact, there is also chaos in their army, all kinds of pamphlets are secretly distributed, and some people even swear that the tsar will be finished.

The soldiers wanted to go back as soon as possible, to their homes, and not to stay in this strange Far East.

Therefore, the soldiers of Liaoyang, like Mukden, fought and began to flee, but many of them fled to Lushun, because the north was full of enemy troops and the big terrifying airships.

All the plans came according to Wu Peifu's vision, occupied Liaoyang, when the battle of Liaoyang, the Japanese and Russians built a large number of fortifications here, at this time they were all used by Wu Peifu and began to deploy defenses, he wanted to block the Russian army step by step on all fronts, so that the Russian army continued to consume, until they could not bear it themselves, as for attacking Lushun, this was not in Wu Peifu's plan, the Japanese attacked for so long, this is already recognized by the whole world, it is impossible to capture the fortress.

In the north of Harbin, the army of Linievich, when the railway was sabotaged by bandits and harassed everywhere, the reinforcements were delayed, and the attitude of rescue was extremely unresolute.

After a difficult trek, the military attaches of Britain, France, the United States and Germany in China finally arrived in Liaoyang, and they looked embarrassed one by one.

Yang Chao arranged for them to live in Liaoyang, telling them not to worry, Liaoyang is very safe, his tens of thousands of troops have already arranged this place into an iron wall, and the Russians will not have any other results except for hitting their heads and bleeding.

But during the night, something suddenly happened, and the soldiers caught a Russian spy, who was sent to the door automatically to be precise.

Yang Chao secretly met this Russian spy, this spy even knew French and English, the two confirmed that they talked in English, and the spy told Yang Chao that the Russian army would dispatch its own airships tomorrow, numbering as many as thirty, and also told Yang Chao the location of the Lushun airship, hoping that Yang Chao would blow up the airship in advance, and he knew that Yang Chao could bomb at night.

But Yang Chao refused, the Russians wanted to come to death, let them come, and the four guests of Britain, France, the United States and Germany all wanted to see how the airship fought.

The Russians had airships, which they bought from the Germans, just to send supplies and personnel to Lushun.

Airships are not cheap, not to mention anything else, just hundreds of meters long, forty or fifty meters in diameter of the airbag outside the layer of aluminum skin is going to die, a few years ago aluminum was still regarded as a luxury product, used to make jewelry, this era of airships, just like the later generations of airplanes, are very expensive, a single cost of one million dollars.

Even if Wilhelm II was interesting enough to not make money from the Russians, the Russians could not afford much, and in the end they only bought fifty ships, and after the Japanese took down a dozen ships one after another in the map of forcible delivery of supplies, they themselves were reluctant to send them out to take risks.

After the war, Russia only had thirty airships left, and all of them were placed in Arthur to support the operation here.

After Yang Chao used the combat power and deterrence of airships to defeat the Russian army twice and capture Fengtian and Liaoyang, Kontrachenko finally decided to send his own airships, because he had already reconnoitred that there were only ten airships on Yang Chao's side, so he had a numerical advantage and should be able to defeat Yang Chao.

Kontrachenko's airship fleet, facing the morning glow, rushed towards Liaoyang, and they would be responsible for destroying the Qing army's airship forces, and at the same time bombing Liaoyang to hit the morale of the Qing army.

The Russians are very proud, there are more than a dozen people on each airship, and quite a few of them are officers, because in the Russian army, where the general literacy rate is not high, there are generally only officers who can operate these machines.

After the Russians were bombed and machine-gunned in Mukden, they also immediately modified the airship, with a group of artillery officers and soldiers responsible for using the modified howitzer to drop bombs, and machine gunners tied machine guns to the cockpit door, their transformation was rough and full of Russian style.

Among the people who came to observe, of course, Britain, France, the United States, and Germany, but also some other countries, such as Italy, Austria-Hungary, Belgium and other countries, one of the short military attachés with black hair and black eyes was extremely active and extremely enthusiastic about the Chinese soldiers, and he would talk to them when he had the opportunity to chat, obviously this was a Japanese military attaché.

The Americans, Ober, were very disdainful of the Japanese military attache Ono, and if they could find useful information in this way, they would not have to come to see it in person.

The French, on the other hand, are feeling a little bored.

The German was a little curious about the Chinese's dress, and he really couldn't understand how these guys, who were dressed in tattered clothes and looked more like bandits than soldiers, defeated the Russians.

The Austrian and Italian military attachés debated fiercely how the airship should be used.

The Belgian admired the beauty of the sunrise, as if he saw a group of dark shadows under the red sun, everyone saw it, everyone suddenly stopped talking, thirty airships, thirty giant beasts, rolling together, it made people feel a kind of overwhelming momentum.

Because an airship is basically more than 100 meters away, it is indeed a giant beast, and to allow the airship to turn without colliding, the distance between the two airships must be at least about 200 meters, in this way, the thirty ships are more than 600 meters away, more than a mile wide, and the roaring engine sound is practiced together, and the momentum imagination is unthinkable.

A group of military attachés were stunned at this time, and they picked up binoculars one after another to look.

"It's a Russian airship!"

They saw the tsarist emblem on it.

The Japanese looked grim, he was very interested in airships, in the Russo-Japanese War, airships made them suffer a lot, so he was extremely enthusiastic, hoping to get some useful information from the Chinese soldiers, but he failed, these soldiers did not know anything, or did not want to say.

Now that the Russian airship is coming, it is natural to take a good look.

"What about the Chinese airships? I think they should take to the skies! ”

The German military attache said confidently, he felt that here, he was the most authoritative, speaking of using airships, they Germans are experts, other countries, hehe, it would be good to play balloons.

The military attachés of other countries nodded and agreed that the Chinese airships should take to the skies for battle, because they could not think of any way to stop the Russian airships, just as before the appearance of aircraft carriers, they thought that only battleships could deal with battleships, and before the appearance of helicopters, they thought that only tanks could deal with tanks.

As the Russian airship flew closer and closer, a group of military attachés couldn't help but be a little nervous, they didn't know if the Russians would bomb them, and they also felt the huge roar of the airship shake the city walls.

But they don't have to worry too much, because the Russian airship will definitely not fly in front of the city wall, fifteen miles away from Liaoyang City, where there is a Chinese position, where is the target of the Russians.

"And airships?"

At this time, a military attache lowered his eyes, but suddenly saw a group of black shadows behind the Russian airship.

The other military attachés used binoculars to stare only at the Russian airships, which provided a close line of sight, but narrowed the field of view, so that they could not see the other group of airships that were slowly approaching the Russian airships.

When a group of military attachés heard this, they all lowered their binoculars, and when they saw the airship behind them, they came first, and actually caught up with the Russian airship.

"It should be a Chinese airship!"

The Germans glanced at the back and said, there were no people and signs on the Chinese airship.

Seeing that the Chinese airship was getting closer and closer, but the Russian airship had been driving forward, everyone was quite puzzled, didn't the Russian airship see the Chinese airship, if such a big figure could not be seen, unless it was a blind man.

But the Russians just didn't notice it, and just as they were about to approach the first trench and began to slow down, the Chinese airship flew over them, and then everyone saw the Chinese airship dropping bombs.

One bomb after another smashed vertically on the aluminum airbags of the Russian airship from less than 100 meters in the air, and in addition to exploding, thick flames rolled up, accompanied by yellow smoke.

"Shimose gunpowder!"

The Japanese military attache was familiar with this kind of scene, and it was clear that this was the scene of a picric acid explosion, with yellow poisonous smoke and a high-temperature flame.

One shell was enough, and the thin aluminum skin of a few millimeters thick could not withstand the gunpowder of thousands of degrees, and it was burned open, and a large amount of hydrogen gas gushed out and burned.

Ordinary people may think that hydrogen will explode when it encounters fire, but in fact, this is a misunderstanding, hydrogen will only explode when it encounters an open flame at a certain concentration, and the concentration exceeds 90%, basically it will not explode.

For hydrogen to explode, it must be a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen.

But now the airship burst open a big hole, and the combustion of hydrogen continued to tear bigger holes, and the oxygen in the air was violently consuming hydrogen, and at the same time mixing with relatives, and finally when the first airship descended to dozens of meters, the volley exploded, and the flames that came out engulfed the nearby area of hundreds of meters.

The second, the third, almost every exploding shell, destroys an airship.

There are thirty airships in the Russian army, although Yang Chao only has ten, but for a while, the pilot on Yang Chao's side actually felt a little insufficient, because a team only got an average of three.

All the military attachés were stunned, opened their mouths and looked up stupidly, they saw the first air battle in the true sense of human history, and the results of the air battle were so disparity, the thirty Russian airships finally turned into fireballs, and the bones of the crew on them were gone, this kind of tragedy made them feel chills.