Airships have been controversial all over the world before, and many countries have carried out research on the military value of airships, but finally gave up, because of technical limitations, the military value of airships in this era is not high. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, the main reason is that everyone has not seen the airship tactics, but Yang Chao directly put the plane bombing set on the airship in advance, and combined with the use of helicopters, he forcibly occupied positions behind enemy lines on a large scale.

The sudden emergence of tactics decades later suddenly opened the eyes of the militaries of various countries and found a new way of thinking.

But in terms of airship research and development, Zeppelin is ahead of this era more than one, even if Zeppelin's airship is sold to other countries, there are definitely not many countries that want to perfectly imitate it, Germany has been secretly researching airships, and other countries have the ability of the United States, but Americans are not very concerned about the military.

This is the reason why only the Germans adopted airships on a large scale in World War I, because only they and American industry could support the production of such a huge and complex flying object as airships, and the French had the best experience in the use of petite aircraft.

However, the results of such a flexible use of airships in the Yang Chao War are really shocking, and the performance of the Chinese army is seen by all countries, especially the appearance of large-scale deserters in the end, which makes countries feel that China's army is just like that, and the reason why they can defeat Russia is only because they have large-scale airships.

On the one hand, this confirms the unprecedented combat effectiveness of the airship, which everyone did not see, or ignored, when Yang Chao launched a counterattack, the main force of the Russian army went to fight the Japanese, and the country was also in chaos, and the army was unstable, but no one saw it at this time.

In summing up the war, all the powerful countries, without exception, regarded airships as the first element, and almost all the militaries put forward to their own governments the requirements of equipping airships as soon as possible, studying airship tactics, and training airship troops.

But it was the Japanese who were the first to strike.

Japan did not hesitate to carry the heavy debt of the British Hades, and ruthlessly paid 30 million US dollars, and bought 100 airships from Yang Chao at a sky-high price of 300,000 US dollars, plus the airships blackmailed by Ito Hirobumi from Yang Chao during the war, the number of Japanese airship equipment reached 120 in an instant.

Then the Russians, who were unforgettable about airships during the war, also used the aid loans given by Britain, the United States, Germany, and France to buy 200 airships. The French asked for 500 in one go, and the British had a kind of airship panic with the domestic quarrel, fearing that the German airships would bomb Britain like the Chinese, and bought 1,000 airships in one go.

In fact, in recent years, various countries have carried out research on airships, especially Japan, which has the most research efforts, but their backward industrial system is really difficult to support such complex large-scale industrial discontinuous products, and the most important thing is that they cannot produce aluminum alloys. The Japanese even copied Zeppelin's early airship, which was a composite material made of steel for the skeleton, pure aluminum for the skin, thick silk and canvas and brushed with asphalt as an airbag, and they did make the airship, but it was completely useless, and the weight and load of 100 tons did not exceed ten tons.

The world's ability to produce the same level of products of Shandong Zeppelin-Yang Chao Airship Company is Germany. Even Yang Chao was a little amazed, because he thought that the Germans did not have aluminum alloy, but he later learned that the Germans invented aluminum alloy materials in 1895, of course, the Germans' aluminum alloy is not as good as Yang Chao's formula, and the physical properties cannot catch up with Yang Chao's, but they don't care about safety, they can still produce products with the same level of performance.

There is another point, Yang Chao does not believe that the factory is located in Qingdao, and the skilled workers are all Germans, and the technical parameters of the Zeppelin airship can be concealed from the Germans.

Britain, the United States, Germany, and France cannot be copied by these industrial countries, not to mention other industrially underdeveloped countries, but the airship threat has been quarreled for the first time after the war, so what should we do as some countries with security concerns? There seems to be no choice but to buy.

Therefore, Yang Chao's remaining 1,200 airships also began to be scrambled, Turkey bought 100 ships, Turkey bought, and Greece did not dare not buy them, because at this time, the signs of the Balkan War in 1912 had risen, and Greece united Serbia and other Balkan countries and was planning to start a war with Turkey.

Greece gritted its teeth and bought 100 ships, and Serbia also bought them, but it was too poor, so 30 ships came. Bulgaria has 30 ships, Romania has oil and has a lot of money, and 100 ships have come.

Because the Balkan issue is involved, the army has a high call for war, and Austria-Hungary, which feels that it is also an empire, is not suitable not to buy it, and it cannot be less than a down-and-out empire like Turkey, 300 ships, Austria-Hungary will buy it, Italy will have to come with 300 ships, and Serbia will also have 30 ships.

In a circle of countries that threaten each other, Yang Chao's remaining 1,200 airships were also disposed of at a high price.

But after selling the airship, the first time was not to sigh about making money, but to feel that the world is indeed full of crises and contradictions, and it seems that it is unlikely that a world war will break out, but I feel a lot more relieved.

The only thing that made Yang Chao depressed was that the Americans were unmoved, and they didn't make a move.

How can the U.S. government, which has the largest economy and the most powerful financial resources in the world, not equip its army with a huge airship force?

Yang Chao decided to do something.

Soon when the latest batch of airships of the Zeppelin Company rolled off the assembly line, Yang Chao immediately organized a big event for 100 airships to cross the Pacific Ocean, regardless of the Chinese New Year.

"The weather is right, right?"

In the preparation before departure, Yang Chao was most concerned about the weather.

The real reason why Yang Chao is crazy about equipping 3,000 airships is not that much is really needed in the war, but because the transoceanic voyage has never been carried out.

Yang Chao encountered the Hindenburg dilemma that year, that is, the world's attention was very high, but the real business was not hot enough, because flying an airship was always regarded as a risky behavior.

Yang Chao has been around the world for six or seven years, between the route of the Zeppelin from China to the United States, still can only maintain the frequency of one a month, so there is no guarantee that the passenger is full, the route from the United States to Europe is busy, but it can only accommodate two trips a month, and there is basically no need to open other routes, so these commercial routes only need ten airships at most, which has expanded to one hundred airships at the same time, and the output of a batch can be rolled off the assembly line in three months is a great waste.

Yang Chao was extremely crazy in order to support the industry, so he underwrote them all, and the airship company made a lot of money, while Yang Chao accumulated a lot of money.

Why do people think that flying an airship is an adventure, because many scientists have said that airships are not a safe means of transportation, and they list many seemingly overbearing proof formulas that believe that airships do not have the strength to resist storms. Zeppelin had argued with the experts in the newspapers, but he was clearly unable to defeat the experts who ate by mouth.

Therefore, world public opinion still believes that the airship is just a fancy tool to show off, and the business of daily business has never been developed, but can only receive some young people who have tried it.

Of course, the statements of those experts are not unreasonable, in recent years, the Zeppelin has encountered several crises, fortunately relying on a strong enough skeleton did not have a major disaster, but another airship was even torn by the storm and forced to land on the sea, waiting for a full week to get rescue, which is even more of a blow to the safety credit of the airship.

To this end, Zeppelin also began to establish a safer system, such as hiring a large number of meteorology students, and German meteorological scientists working for free in the Zeppelin company to study atmospheric phenomena.

In the past few years, these people have accumulated a large amount of meteorological data by crossing the ocean by airship once a month, and have built a safe climate model.

"Don't worry, sir, now is the right time. I've heard the German say that I don't really understand what to say about cold winters and inactive air currents, so storm activity is in a cold state and so on. Anyway, they say that airships are the safest in winter! ”

Gong Mingde, who was in charge of leading the team this time, explained to Yang Chao.

During the war, Gong Mingde led more than 100 airships to carry out bombing missions more than ten times, but it was the first time for him to sail across the ocean, so he was still looking forward to it.

"That's good. As soon as there is a problem, make an emergency landing. Each airship has a radio installed on it, and it is believed that there is a good chance that it will be rescued. ”

Yang Chao admonished.

Gong Mingde said impatiently that he knew, so he couldn't wait to get on the airship and set off first.

It took three hours to watch the airships rise into the sky, and then they began to form in the sky, using a large-scale formation to cross the Pacific Ocean, and finally appeared across the territory of the United States.

If this can't stimulate the Americans to purchase airships, Yang Chao has no choice.

The Japanese have more than 100 airships, and Yang Chao used this method to tell the Americans that Japan has the ability to fly to the territory of the United States in 48 hours, and their 100 airships will be able to transport at least 1,500 tons of bombs, or 20,000 people to land in the United States.

Yang Chao believes that when a hundred airships fly over their cities and over their industrial areas, the Americans will consider spending some money to protect their national security.

In fact, Yang Chao is completely redundant, because the US Congress is already debating this issue, but the expensive value of the airship has made many lawmakers oppose it, so whether to procure or not is not a problem, the problem is the amount of appropriation and the quantity of procurement.

But Yang Chao is not doing useless work, the airship fleet that appeared over US territory on the third day did put an end to the Americans' controversy, and the US Congress passed a special appropriation for the establishment of the airship fleet, a total of 500 million US dollars, to build a 500-ship airship fleet within three years, and in the first year they will buy 100 ships. (To be continued.) )