Chapter 564: The Air Battle is Underway
The sun rises high, radiating infinite heat towards the earth, the airship holds its head high to the north, 12 people are slightly crowded, for the airship that is only more than 30 meters long, the cabin below, only about 10 meters, two meters wide is only 20 square meters, if it is just a standing person, it is absolutely enough, but plus driving, the place where the engine is placed, the northwest engine can be quite small, which can be accommodated, replaced by the kind of steam in Russia, it must be made very wide below.
You know, hydrogen and helium, the characteristics are completely different, in terms of weight, helium is heavier than hydrogen, the ceiling and load capacity are also a little smaller, after 12 people go up, the margin is relatively small, even if helium has huge flame retardancy, once the small cabin is more broken, more air leakage, it is very difficult, maybe it will fall down. In order to resist bullets, a layer of polymer composite materials is specially placed on the outside of this airbag, but compared with bullets, it is still somewhat inferior, and at most it can prevent bullets from continuing to penetrate.
24 air service soldiers, their eyes are firm, for them, their task is to gain air supremacy in the northwest, the previous impact on the Russian army, because it is night, the airship can not go up casually, did not make the trip, this more or less makes them feel depressed, now, the opportunity has come, as long as the 8 airships of the Russian army are killed, before the enemy mobilizes new airships, air supremacy is still theirs.
In the past, air supremacy did not have much effect, but after the use of the airship in the city, air supremacy was absolutely important, in the city, there were 6 large airships, just to put bombs, a total of 2 tons of bombs, the special forces at that time summed up things, plus a large number of mortar shells now, the intensity of this aerial bombardment, is also quite can, can cause continuous damage to the enemy.
After a night of flight, the flight was about 7 o'clock in the morning, arrived at Chita, the reason why this time was chosen was for the airship battle, to get here, there was no battle, how bad it was, the airship did not have any sneak attack, the huge airship, it could not be hidden at all, and speed was also a key, the airship could not quickly assault, which also made the airship only able to get in close contact.
Close to the outer circle of Chita, almost 60 kilometers away from Chita, in the clear sky at a glance, the airship is very obvious, the Russian army below panicked, passed through guò, and teleported to the location of the barracks, Brusinov listened to it, was stunned for a moment, and then asked the adjutant: "Has the reconnaissance airship taken off?" ”
"It's already taking off!"
"Let them come back, change the weapons and personnel, prepare the other airships, how long will it take!"
"30 minutes for a change, 50 minutes for the rest!"
Brusinov breathed a sigh of relief, the other party is 60 kilometers away, and with the speed of the airship, it is unlikely to exceed 60 kilometers per hour, then there is an hour of preparation, he pondered for a moment, and continued the order: "Let the personnel be concentrated, first of all, let half of the airships take off, let an officer who understands airships, come to the command!"
Brusinov sensitively felt that a big war was coming, and he only knew a little about airships, but there were some familiar personnel in the airship team he carried, and almost all of the officers who were tested by the Russian army on airships were brought by him.
On the side of the Baotou airship, the scout in charge of observation said loudly: "There are two airships in the air ahead!"
The commander's face was calm, he didn't plan to raid, and the airship couldn't surprise it, and even if the opponent's airship didn't come out, he didn't plan to attack, but he happened to run into the Russian airship to investigate, looking at the Russian airship that flew up, and the northwest flew slowly, and it was estimated that it would take more than 1 hour to get in touch.
"Captain, they seem to be landing!"
The captain was stunned for a moment, and then understood, the other party must be to carry out other orders, not attack orders, obviously they were not found before, huge targets, it is not easy to hide, it seems that even if Chita has an army of 600,000, it is not scattered, but only concentrated around Chita, so that it can be discovered by the other party at 60 kilometers, so it is okay, it passes slowly.
Brusinov looked at the airship of the Northwest Army coming with his head high, Brusinov was a little curious, what was the reason for the Northwest to be so confident, facing his 700,000 army, even if it was a little vain, some were still second-line, and even reserve forces, but the army was the army, and the 700,000 troops with weapons were not so easy to eliminate, was the Northwest really not afraid of this pressure?
In a sense, Brusinov is quite vigilant about the northwest, which can be seen from the annihilation of 210,000 regular troops in the northwest, the Russian army that went out for the first time is not the army he is piling up now, in a sense, the army of 600,000, of which only about 400,000 is called the regular army, which can be called the elite front-line troops, only about 200,000, which is about the same as the first time, Brusinov's strength lies in strategy, the large army is more familiar with Samsolov, facing unfamiliar opponents, In addition to understanding the opponent's combat methods as much as possible, this can be found from the rout, the army retreating from Kyakhta has been broken up and reorganized by him, and his team has been asked about the other party's understanding of the northwest, which can be regarded as having been restored to the whole process of this battle.
The northwest is very strong, as far as the regular army is concerned, it is a grade higher than the Russian army, this is mainly the equipment, excellent artillery configuration, scalp tingling machine gun configuration, and the black monster that caused the rout.
The black monster, this is the opinion of all the Russian troops who retreated in this night, the strong defense, whether it is artillery or machine guns, can not hurt them, automatically turn on the machine gun, become a life-harvesting scythe, I don't know how many people, died under their machine guns.
Many of the people who survived on any night of death called that thing death, harvested like a sickle, and those who died under him were not tens of thousands. Brusinov was not a superstitious person, as an imperial general, he analyzed it a little, and he analyzed that this thing should be a motor vehicle, something that travels through some kind of energy, so it is invulnerable, and that is because of the armor on the surface.
No matter how Russia is, it was once the third largest naval power in the world, and the reason why battleships are powerful, so ignoring other battleships, isn't it just surface armor, thick armor, which can allow battleships to ignore the attacks of most caliber guns, unless the battleship's main gun hits, it also depends on the level and angle of incidence.
It seems that the machine is like this, to ignore the attack of artillery, how thick the armor is, the huge hull of the battleship and the unimaginable power, the pusher battleship moves quickly in the water, this is land not the surface, the same weight and thickness of armor, on the water, requires more power than on land, such an almost an iron lump, maybe it weighs dozens of tons, how to move, what kind of power drives, this is a question.
The experienced Brusinov didn't know how to make it, but he could think of a solution, a big pit would be fine, as long as he dug a pit large enough, he could avoid the impact of such a black monster, unless he could fly, it was impossible, dozens of tons of iron lumps, how to compare with a huge, hydrogen-filled airship.
Because of understanding, it is calm, the northwest is sticking to the trading city, and there is no sign of major army movements around, which makes Brusinov a little calm, but today's attack, coupled with the airship in the sky, makes him have a bad expectation in his heart, the resources and forces that the northwest can use seem to be far more powerful than he imagined, and there are many tricks, so let this battle be fought and see.
Time passed minute by minute, 40 minutes passed quickly, the airship of the Northwest Army on the opposite side did not seem to be fast, almost at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, calmly flew over a distance of more than 20 kilometers, and Chita side, 40 kilometers away, according to this speed It will take about two hours, time should be in time!
"How many airships took off?" Brusinov asked.
The attendant replied respectfully, "A total of 2 airships have taken off?" ”
"Why are there only 2 ships, doesn't it mean that the refit will be completed in 30 minutes, and most of them can take off within 40 minutes, why are they just the two ships that took off before?" Brusinov was stunned for a moment, and said angrily.
The attendant officer couldn't explain, so he had to look at the airship commander next to him, he was one of the commanders of the airship unit, and he was also the deputy captain of the Russian army's real force that studied airships, and he was very experienced.
"Our plan is not ready to take off!"
"What the hell?"
"In fact, the preparations are ready, at least 4 ships are ready, and the reason why they don't take off is for fear of scaring the other party!" The commander said simply, according to him, I am afraid that only the airship that has not been fully deployed has not been prepared, but that is only 20 minutes, the distance between the two sides is too far, a full 40 kilometers, once all take off, maybe, seeing that the number of opponents is too large, maybe they will run.
Seeing that the commander was so confident, Brusinov nodded slightly and said, "Very good, let them speed up!" In this battle, only victory is not defeated! ”
"Yes!" The commander saluted and looked at the front quietly, and at this time in the Russian military camp, because of the chaos caused by the airships, it was still intensifying, after all, it was the troops from the Far East and the Ural Mountains that were transferred, and the discipline and training process were far inferior to the European part, but fortunately, there were only 2, and Brusinov asked the attendant officer to calm down, telling them that the combat effectiveness of these airships was not strong, and after the command had a way to deal with it, it slowly calmed down, and some bold ones even stood up and stood outside to have a good time, It doesn't look like a strange big guy, is it going to be knocked down. R1152