When the French commander was working hard to prepare for the defense of the Western Front to resist the German advance, he would never have imagined that the Germans did not want to break through the defense with heavy artillery. Although according to common sense, this is the best option, after all, only in the case of defense, it will not be able to stop the bombardment of artillery, and transporting artillery to the front line will leave enough time for France.

However, after the airship supported from the northwest was in place, the airship and the bomb have become a new weapon for attacking, when the Liege Fortress, the airship has already shown his ability, and the current fortress of this French urban agglomeration is not as good as the Liege Fortress, as long as they break through, the 300,000 French troops on the front line, as well as the subsequent hundreds of thousands of landing British troops, have almost become fish on the chopping block, unable to move, Schlieffen plan, to eliminate the living force of the French army, can be quickly achieved, Even cuddling the grass and beating the rabbit, the British were also piggybacked.

The soldiers were very fast, and Crook's request directly crossed a distance of several hundred kilometers and went up to the General Staff, which immediately approved it, and the airship that was originally used as a support and supply, after replenishing some aerial bombs, immediately turned into a bombing airship and went to the French front line to carry out the task of attacking the fortification.

On this day, it was a good weather, not cloudless, but there were only a few sparse flowers in the sky, and there was not much wind, but after entering the middle of November, the climate became dry and cold, and for the battle, the test for the fighters was relatively large, but for the airship, it was the best time to bomb.

28 airships, 24 of which are jumbos, capable of carrying thirty-ton airships. It's too big, and it's on French territory. There's nothing to hide. Germany's Schlieffen plan is about rapid advance. A rapid advance will make the opponent unable to react, lose the judgment of the German army in a short period of time, and even make a wrong choice, and be defeated by the German army's concentrated superior forces, which has huge advantages in military terms. But there are advantages, there are disadvantages, and the army rushes quickly. The control of the localities is very low, except for a few key cities and traffic arteries, the rest of the countryside and most of the areas are controlled by the French, such a group of airships can easily arouse the idea of the French, with the help of these secret telegraph points, the news is spread to the French command.

With the arrival of Germany into France, there was something about Belgium. It has already begun to circulate, especially after the arrival of the Belgian king in the Netherlands, many details have been announced, and the airship directly attacked. Breaking the fortress of Liège sounds strange and impossible, but it is not without wind. Some things, it's better to be careful. France was also ready to fight the airships, as a great power. Since the appearance of airships, the development in France is not small, and the military has also purchased some of them, but the number is not so large, the only advantage is that France uses small airships, whether it is flexibility or speed, it is much faster than the large airships used by Germany, and there should be no problem with these small airships.

The downed airship will not affect the ground, regardless of whether the other party has the ability to shoot it down first, and then strike first, for this reason, the French side concentrated all the airships from the surrounding cities, before the German airships arrived in the French cities, the French took off more than 60 small airships with a length of only five or six meters, they simply integrated into a team in the air, and then flew in the direction of the airship's arrival.

The German army also saw it below, including Crook, who was equipped with an airship, and he didn't have a bottom in his heart, what about the self-defense ability of this airship, what he valued before was only the ability of this airship to attack fortifications, but the battle between the airships and the airships had really never been encountered, the small ones were stronger than the big ones, and this point, a long time ago, was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, if these airships were shot down by the small airships, it would definitely be a huge loss for the entire Germany, and even the war situation on the front line. The Germans could only have time to send a warning message to the airship, and the radio was already practical, especially in field conditions, a distance of about 30 kilometers was enough for the airship to receive.

After receiving the telegram, Lieutenant Colonel Mark, the commander of the airship, was slightly surprised, he was a German, and he also realized the strong attack ability of the airship on the ground, but what would happen to the battle in the air, which still had no bottom in his heart, although he was equipped with a large number of machine guns, he had no choice but to find an expert, compared to him, the combat experience of the Northwest Army was a little stronger.

Among these pilots and commanders who supported Germany, there were really those who participated in the First World War in Russia, and even the only soldier in the decisive battle of the flight, his name was Liu Dezhi, when he was only 18 years old, he followed the airship to participate in the war against Russia, and won the Order of the Third Class Guard of the Northwest Method, and later because of his military exploits, he entered the Northwest Military Academy for a year and a half of study, and successfully graduated with the rank of lieutenant, was sent to Germany, and is currently under the command of the officers and soldiers of the Chinese side, and has entered the command airship, responsible for coordination with Germany.

Liu Dezhi knows very well that for these airships currently sold to Germany in the northwest, the size of the airship is not critical, and in some cases, it is easy to install all kinds of weapons when they are bigger. The survivability of the airship is not speed, nor the weapon, but the gas added to it, most of the airships of this era, using hydrogen as a filling gas, hydrogen is much lighter than air, easy to form a huge carrying capacity, but flammable, has always been a dead hole of hydrogen, as long as a bullet hits the huge hydrogen airbag, it is easy to ignite the entire airbag, causing a hydrogen explosion, and was shot down, the airship that costs a lot of money is just a one-time, Even a cannon and torch in itself, which is unacceptable in any way.

Relatively speaking, helium is much more suitable, stable dìng gas, the carrying capacity is slightly worse than hydrogen, but born in safety, especially participated in the war against Russia, 2 to 6 have successfully won, at that time only temporarily got the cannon on the airship, now, this position, is a multi-party setting in the real yàn room, the ratio of the bullet chain is also special, in a group of several bullet chains, not only drag light bombs, but also incendiary bombs, for the use of hydrogen airship is much more lethal.

Almost no need to investigate, you know that the hydrogen used by the other party, helium as a rare gas, there is no direct manufacturing method, it is generally extracted from natural gas, the proportion of one millionth in the air, plus the difficulty of separation, will make the production of helium reach an unacceptable process, you can't produce it yourself, if you buy it, only the United States is selling at present, most of the buyers are research institutions, it can't be said that the Americans are technologically developed, the specific reason is that the Americans are blessed, The helium content in natural gas is extremely high, and the ordinary one reaches about 7%, and it can be taken out and sold by extracting it casually.

However, the price in the United States is also relatively high, the reason is that the separation technology is not up to standard, often 100 copies of materials, 99 copies will be wasted, the real yàn room to buy research, the price is not high, but rushed to the airship, this price, how few are not acceptable to ordinary people, the cost of an airship, may not be able to buy a filling of helium, this price, no one can accept.

Northwest helium is also extracted from natural gas, the source is the United States, the import of natural gas, is a big expense in the northwest, before the United States natural gas, most of them are discharged in vain, because the use is small, and it is not easy to preserve and transport, but after the development of liquefied gas cylinders and transportation in the northwest, natural gas has become a good product, the price began to rise, the northwest imports about 50 million tons of liquefied natural gas from the United States every year, second only to the import of oil. Therefore, the huge petrochemical enterprises in Northwest China have produced a large number of helium by-products in the processing of natural gas, some of which are used for the filling of airships, and the other part is widely used in various light fillers, and the research on inert gases is gradually deepening.

After getting the affirmative reply from the Northwest soldiers, Mark breathed a sigh of relief, and out of his unfamiliarity with air combat, he took the initiative to hand over the command of this battle to the Northwest people, he had never fought in the air, and it could be regarded as learning experience.

The airship changed the camp slightly, from the flight mode, to the stubborn mode, this formation, is the northwest after careful research, only to get, can maximize the attack power of the airship, a giant airship, a total of more than a dozen machine guns of different sizes, most of them are light machine guns, but also have 8 machine guns, although in one direction, at most only 40% of the firepower, this camp can not exceed 30 airships of firepower together, towards each direction, The density of fire is not less than 15% of the entire density of fire, especially the front is the most, which is the main direction of attack.

Don't underestimate this, from the situation of 30 airships, hundreds of machine guns and machine guns, it is very difficult to achieve this, almost mutual losses, reduced to the minimum, and all-round protection without dead ends, is the northwest after many years of research.

Among them, the command ship is placed in the center, the reason for this is not that Zhao Dezhi is afraid of death, but because of the 4 airships from Germany, only half of them are loaded with inert gas, and the rest are hydrogen, their battlefield survivability is not strong, a little careless, a stray bullet flew over, which is the result of the destruction of the boat, fortunately, they are a little smaller than the Jumbo class, and the 24 ships on the periphery, under the protective camp, are enough to cover them all. (To be continued......)