Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Air Force That Does Not Prevail

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A person can only cherish something when he puts in the effort, and the same is true for his love for the country. In the final analysis, Li Qi only has a German body, but his soul is an authentic heavenly ~ dynasty soul, so that he has the spirit of selfless dedication to Germany? That must be after what happened!

[Skipping the command is the most terrible! ] What they think is a reasonable judgment with the greatest confidence is a great irresponsibility for those of us who are in danger! 】

But what else can Li Qi do if it's already like this? As long as everything is related to the monarchy, even in the Second German Empire, which is a united monarchy, the Kaiser still has the greatest choice. Therefore, the Kaiser said that the action should be carried out only when necessary, and neither Richie nor Ewald could do so. Feng. Whatever Kleist's opinion is, things don't change easily.

"The shelling from outside seems to be ......," said Ewald. Feng. Kleist listened for a moment and continued, "The frequency is starting to decrease? ”

Indeed, the 2nd Army was not exclusively for their squad, and was only an insignificant part of the entire Somme front. In fact, if they had not captured a group of Allied generals, the artillery would not have been able to provide any support.

Richie didn't say anything, he heard a "buzzing" sound and walked out of the room, and when he looked up to the southeast, there were some dense little black dots in the distance of the sky.

"Aircraft in the pre-order scheme." Ewald. Feng. With joy on his face, Kleist looked at it with his binoculars and said, "About forty." ”

Richie's telescope had been lost during the battle, and he borrowed Ewald. Feng. Kleist's telescope looked at the forty planes from the southeast, and he recognized most of them as albatrosses, with only a few monoplanes, but he couldn't tell the models.

In terms of the current aircraft, the aircraft of the Entente side may not be too superior to the Central Powers in terms of performance, but they are really suppressed in terms of quantity.

The Newport 17 is probably the most advanced aircraft currently available in the French Air Force. The real situation is that although the French Newport 17 has not received much improvement in performance and flight speed, because it is equipped with a kind of "shooting synchronization coordinator", although it still has various problems, it is still the world's first real fighter.

In order to change this situation, the British military commissioned Sopwiths to develop an aircraft that could keep up with the times and even surpass, and a camel (Sopwith-F.1-Camel) was developed. At the moment it is in the final state, in particular, borrowing from the French Newport 17 to install a "shooting synchronization coordinator", two machine guns in parallel in the upper part of the aircraft engine, and the adoption of a "shooting coordinator". Because the machine guns were covered with a raised bulge above each other, like two humps, it was named "camel". It will be in the army in 1917.

The most used albatross in the German Air Force is the Albatross produced by Albatros, which has been developed to the D-III model, although it is already starting to look backward. The Luftwaffe was already lagging behind Britain and France in terms of quantity, and in order to pursue its qualitative superiority, it was developed by the Fokker Aircraft Factory in eastern Germany in 1913, and began to serve in small quantities in 1915, and it was not until 1916 that a better "firing coordinator" than the Allied side was installed.

The "Fokker Catastrophe" has not yet been staged in the skies, because the number of Fokkers in service with the German army is not too large, that is, two aircraft per squadron, but although the number is scarce, it has put a lot of pressure on the Allied air force.

It was not until the Fokker E.III. monoplane fighters entered service in large numbers that the "Fokker disaster" was officially staged, but it was not until after July 1916. However, soon at the end of 1916, Britain and France hurriedly transferred the newly manufactured Newburgh Type 11, F. E.2b and DH.2 fighters were pushed into battle, and the "Fokker catastrophe" was stopped.

"We don't have bombers...... "Richie said with a bitter face, "both Britain and France have bombers on the battlefield, and we don't." ”

In fact, Litch's statement is not wrong, Germany was developing a bomber named "Gotha" GII, but in fact it was not successfully tested until March 1916, the number was scarce and it was not put into use on the Western Front during 1916, they were deployed to the Balkan theater.

The small black dot in the east could soon see the outline of the plane with the naked eye, and soon the Allied air defense forces on the ground began to fire one after another, because it was daytime, and the chain of machine gun shells like pearls could not be seen, but some fused anti-aircraft shells could be seen exploding in the sky, emitting black smoke.

"I have a bad premonition." Ewald. Feng. Kleist stared at the black smoke that kept exploding, and said: "Although there are not many anti-aircraft guns of the Entente, the speed of the airship is too slow. Once discovered, they're targets! ”

Li Qi's eyebrows furrowed, of course he knew about the situation, but wanted to break through from the ground and return to the front that belonged to his side? Lower chance of evacuating than with an airship!

The Allies had only 39 divisions before July 1916, but soon increased to 86 divisions. With 86 divisions of Allied troops on such a narrow terrain, they were going to successfully penetrate the battlefield with those captured generals? That's just a joke!

"Yes, the use of aerial weapons is at least possible to succeed." Ewald. Feng. Kleist's face was full of bitterness: "They already know about our existence, not the kind of ignorance in advance, unless it is God manifestation, otherwise we have no possibility of success at all." ”

Li Qi nodded, his eyes fixed on the west direction, where a dense black spot also appeared, and it was the aircraft of the Entente side that had risen into the air to respond to the battle.

German planes were the first to reach the field hospital, and bomb-carrying planes continued to drop bombs on the Allied positions surrounding the field hospital before the Allied fleet arrived.

"They will do their best to eliminate any target that looks like an air defense position." Litchie could see that the bombing effect was not good, and he said again depressedly: "We don't have large bombers, and the bomb charge that those planes can carry is too limited!" ”

Ewald. Feng. Kleist nodded understandingly, then looked at Richie with strange eyes. Maybe he was thinking at this moment that Li Qi, who was born as a civilian, was able to perform well in tactics after how much effort he had, and he would have so many strange ideas about battlefield weapons.

After dropping the bombs, the German fleet did not want to entangle with the air force of the Entente at all, and soon left the battlefield.

In the following period, Li Qi and others were still solemnly prepared for the possible strong attack of the encircled Allied troops, but in fact, the Entente troops surrounding them were first covered by high-intensity artillery fire, and then after a burst of aircraft bombardment, the most depressing thing was that the shelling was still carried out intermittently, and they did not have enough energy to launch any rush attack, but seemed to be building stronger fortifications, and had a posture of completely trapping the German troops in the field hospital.

And that night, Maxim, who thought he was supposed to serve the Great Battle and not bargain with the kidnappers. Weygang, who, having handed over command to a colonel, left......