In the North Sea in winter, the north wind is howling, and the thick sea fog, even under the strong north wind, does not dissipate, which seems to be a protective film to protect the British Isles, however, countless big guys, breaking the silence of the night sky, 700 huge submarines, breaking through this layer of fog, began to go from the European continent to the British Isles.

The fleet of 700 huge airships hundreds of meters long can almost be regarded as covering the sky, but they took off at night, and for the sake of secrecy, they also looked for the most remote and probably least alarming road, and the time of take-off was also after 11 o'clock at night, and during this time period, on the European continent, there would be no one.

Aerial bombardment, starting from the comprehensive application of airships, has become a commonly used project, for the army that does not have sufficient firepower support, aerial bombardment may have become the only option to attack fortifications, but even when the airships are used the most, they are not used at night, let alone in the middle of the fog.

However, the reconnaissance aircraft and intelligence agencies, plus a part of the special forces, seem to have made this possible, with the help of underground guidance, to help the airship troops, in the air, close to the target, and then drop bombs under the premise that they cannot be seen by visual inspection, perhaps the accuracy cannot reach the level of daytime, but as long as the results of the previous reconnaissance are reliable, and the correct position of the arsenal on the opposite side is determined, just such a wave of attacks is enough to produce a huge effect.

From the flight base, it took less than one and a half hours to cross the narrow English Channel and arrive in Manchester, where both arsenals are nearby.

Manchester is an important industrial city in the north of the United Kingdom, in terms of location, it can be regarded as the interior of the United Kingdom, but even if the entire British Isles are not very big, Manchester is not very far from the sea, the island country is like this, the strategic depth is very low.

Along the sea, barely in the fog, the edge of the coast was seen, and their direction was from the northern part of Worth Bay to the British mainland, which was close to the north, and was not a place of great importance in England, and the defense was relatively weak, and it was not easy to attract attention.

After a short pause, at the position of the coast, several rays of light of different colors flashed a few times in a triangular way, and they were regularly turned on three times and extinguished three times, which was the signal agreed with the ground scouts.

Due to the problem of angle, only in this place facing the sea, you can see this angle, which is specially chosen, although the flashlight is a special strong flashlight, as much as possible to reduce the light column, but in the air will still form a lamppost, to the sea, or more hidden and safe.

After discovering the signal, the next thing is easy to do, crossing the sea from the English Channel, this strait is only more than 30 kilometers, but it is enough to produce deviations, but on land, even in the sea fog, it is not clear what is below, but after going ashore, there are many more references.

In the past, you may only be able to rely on the map, on the map, there are no references, it is easy to do what you have been, but if you have not been here, or there is no way to exchange the scenery on the land with what you have seen in the sky, the air raid has become a rootless tree.

The reconnaissance plane flies at a higher altitude than the airship, but the photos taken and what you see on the airship are all from high to low, so it is easy to remember. The terrain in the vicinity of the arsenal has been engraved in the navigator's mind, and the clarity of countless photographs, and even a few references that the staff officers have particularly emphasized, with these, at least in the direction, there will be no problems.

700 airships began to slowly separate, a wave of about 250, a wave of about 450, the distance between the two targets is not far, only about 60 kilometers, but they are located in two places, after entering the United Kingdom, separate actions, so the formation of almost double the gap, the reason is that one of the arsenals is larger, and it is also heavy equipment such as artillery machine guns, which is a relatively high value target, and is one of the focuses of this attack.

Along the coastline, they found the first reference, compared it with their measuring instruments, calculated about the same, and then continued, and the second, and the third, and one after the other, found the reference, which was either a mountain, or a city, in short, a relatively large one, which could be easily seen from the air, and it was the guidance of these references that they got closer and closer to the location of the arsenal.

The speed of the airship is maintained at about 70 kilometers, according to the time, after entering the British mainland, at most, it will be able to reach the location of the arsenal, and the arsenal is getting closer and closer, and the airships are ready to drop bombs for the last time, and the location of the arsenal is less than 5 kilometers.

In the distance, once again the lights came, this location was agreed in advance, in the position of 5 kilometers directly south of the lights, that is, the arsenal, the navigator determined the direction, began to calculate the real-time speed, the last section, can only rely on the airship itself to travel, it is impossible to let the lights guide, it is too dangerous, the arsenal is heavily defended, it is not easy to mix in, and when the attack is opened, the British troops around the arsenal will definitely arrive at the arsenal as soon as possible, when the time comes, even if it is sporadic special forces and intelligence officers, and it is not easy to escape.

In this last distance, these special forces and intelligence agents will take advantage of this little time, less than 5 minutes to escape, and counting the time to react around, they have at least 15 minutes.

15 minutes is not enough for them to escape far, but to reach 10 kilometers, or even longer, it is possible, as long as they escape from the core area, their safety performance is greatly increased, as for their accurate guidance, whether there is a problem, has been at least three times in the simulation, training position, the navigator will definitely not be wrong.

Air raids have not yet become the standard equipment of war, but the British are quite well defended for this key arsenal, at least after entering the night, within 3 kilometers around, the lights are controlled, there is no light, and it is almost impossible to detect it under the shroud of darkness and sea fog.

It is almost impossible to be detected, and the intelligence officers and special forces have already infiltrated the surroundings to guide them at specific locations, and the navigator has also found the approximate location according to the terrain and landmark buildings, and then it is the process of dropping the bomb.

It's a huge, 7-square-kilometer warehouse, and because of the good job of secrecy, they didn't do much in defense, just camouflaged as much as possible.

Although it was a large arsenal, it was not all loaded with munitions, and Germany spent energy on investigation, but did not gain much, but fortunately, 450 airships and more than 10,000 tons of aerial bombs were enough to send all the munitions in these warehouses to the western sky.

The commander looked at his watch, and at 1:53 a.m., almost 40 minutes earlier than expected, at this time, they could not stay too much in the British air, they radioed several detachments, and then turned around and went down to occupy a favorable position. Although it is not clear below, it has been reduced to an altitude of 7,000 meters, and the bomb can be dropped.

Even if it is a night attack, the airship is careful not to descend below 6000 meters, which height, now there are anti-aircraft machine guns can be shrouded, compared with the aircraft, the damage of the anti-aircraft machine gun to the airship will be greater, even if the airship uses helium, it can not withstand the fierce attack of the machine gun, which will make his structure irreversible damage, and eventually sink. I can't see it clearly from left to right, and the range attack is always more than the accuracy of the hit rate.

50 kg of aerial bombs, with the invention of China, Germany also quickly used this, compared to the previous shells, the power of aerial bombs is greater, the classification is more refined, but now Germany has no way to produce more than 200 kilograms, 50 kilograms is the first wave, range and intensive attack, in the professional bombardier, aerial bombs are dropped in turn, airships are like hens laying eggs, countless bombs with destruction, dropped from the air.

From this moment, the fate of this arsenal was doomed, more than 10,000 tons of aerial bombs, from the air, intensively put into the direction of the arsenal, because there is reconnaissance and ground guidance, very accurate, this is not a semi-permanent defensive warehouse, most of them are simple, ordinary warehouses, but more hidden, in the 7000 meters of the air, 50 kg of aerial bombs, free fall movement, the power will not be better than small artillery, not to mention the high explosives inside, they easily passed through the roof, exploded inside.

At first, it was a relatively regular explosion sound, bombs dropped by bombardiers at a constant speed, but then, the explosion began to intensify, after all, the following is the arsenal, although not all the ammunition, but a large number of bullets and shells, even professional bombs, after they were detonated, it was much more lively, the arsenal below did not know what was happening, not even resistance, but the above was still down the flames, this time the air attack, as if it was endless.

More than 10,000 tons of aerial bombs, in 30 minutes, were put into the arsenal below, almost ploughed underneath, and the munitions that had just been loaded into the warehouse, for the Bordeaux front line for too long were almost destroyed.

40 minutes passed quickly, even if the bomb dropping was not completed, the airship still turned around, cleaned up all the load, and then left at high speed thinking about the direction of the sea, according to the plan, only quickly break away from the British mainland, and even to the central axis of the English Channel, it is relatively safe, really safe, until the European continent, that is the area controlled by Germany, at least 12 air defense divisions are responding to them. (To be continued.) )