Airships have been around for a long time, hundreds of years ago, and in 1792, the first practical airship was ascended to the sky, and there was almost an accident. At first, it was just circulated among enthusiasts, some people made airships, performed everywhere, and went to Zeppelin to build large airships, with real practicality, such airships could carry people to fly, carry out transportation on fixed waterways, and airships became a new thing that swept Europe, and attracted more and more people's attention.

Because of the unique advantages of Feitian, when the airship came out, it was favored by the military, but after a closer look, it was found that it was not enough to use, at most it played a certain role in reconnaissance, and the Achilles heel of the airship made the airship in the military road have been locked.

But this time the German blitzkrieg, let everyone see the role of the airship, the huge airship, with the help of air superiority, in unimaginable ways, broke through a huge fortress, the European army country Belgium, actually did not resist 3 days, caught off guard by attack, so that Germany calmly detoured to succeed, all of a sudden France suffered a big loss, and even affected Britain, both sides suffered heavy losses.

However, war is always a catalyst for all kinds of science and technology, although Germany took the lead and took out the airship, but the airship is not a high-end thing, all countries have a certain technical reserve, not to mention anything else, under several battles, the situation of the German airship has been seen by seven, seven, eight or eight, Britain, France and the United States, even a super dreadnought can be built, not to mention such a hard large airship, technology and materials, are already in place. There was no choice before, and the key was that. His role has not yet been confirmed, just like a dreadnought. If it weren't for the power of the British watch Xiàn out of the dreadnought, other countries would not quickly follow suit and immediately let the world enter the era of dreadnoughts.

I don't know how Germany solved the accuracy and power, but the role of the airship has been undoubtedly tabled, since it is determined that the airship has a huge role, then as the world's several mainstream big countries France, Britain. Even the United States has quickly followed up and is vigorously building all kinds of airships, and the huge investment has made airships a new weapon darling. The families of several countries, when their eyes turned, immediately started the construction of huge airships, and some of them were even on top of the airships in Germany and the northwest, with a huge volume. It can be said that it is a giant in the air.

The airship battle between France and Germany ended with the complete defeat of France, but what came out of the table is worth mentioning. The French airship did not shoot down, but it also hit one hard, but the hydrogen airship blew up as soon as it hit. There is no zài on the German airship, the one that left. It must have been hit hard, losing a lot of lift and maneuverability. Otherwise, he would have kept going.

And a gas that doesn't burn and is lighter than hydrogen? This is handed over to the chemist, the periodic table of elements in this era has been completed, and soon, the secret of filling the gas in the airship has also been revealed, in the middle, I have to say that the United States, the United States, the unique United States, the reserves of helium in natural gas are extremely huge, there was no need for this before, now since Germany is equipped, other countries also need to get involved, mainly in the United States, began to study the production of helium, and soon the price of helium was greatly reduced, A series of new methods for purifying and industrially producing helium were developed and soon put into use.

After the two main ones are solved, a key element of the bomb is almost solved, but it is some exquisite design, so that the smaller weight, contains greater lethality, and explodes under certain circumstances, for these countries, it is just a problem of thinking, there is nothing at all, but the sight, it is much worse, after all, I have not seen the real thing, and I don't know the calculation method, I must pass the means of mathematics, and the real yàn again and again, the consumption is huge, not to mention, the finished product is not satisfactory.

Even so, the airship has become the focus of the manufacture of various countries, because of the innate advantage of flight, after solving the key problem of attack power and explosiveness, he will become an important point of attack, for this reason, all countries are large-scale manufacturing, conservative estimates, equivalent to the Northwest giant level of airships, the world, including Germany, a total of 500 have been built, 300 have been laid keel, is under intense construction, maybe half a month, or a month, can be built.

At a price of $1.2 million per ship, this occupies $600 million, such a huge action, how can it be hidden from the northwest, when the intelligence department collected these intelligences and finally summarized the intelligence to the northwest, Yang Yuanzhao couldn't help laughing a few times, it was just to divert the attention of Britain and France and promote the plan of the early outbreak of World War I, but it achieved unexpected results, and the European powers put their eyes on airships, so it will almost inevitably reduce the investment in aircraft, one is still in the early stagesThe little guy who can't see the future road, but a huge airship with enough power and effect, will inevitably hit the level of Western countries on the plane in a big way. The most critical investment, not to mention anything else, when the aircraft in the northwest is put into the battlefield, even if it is the first generation of the Northwest No. 1 into the battlefield, these 500 airships that have spent a lot of money will become scrap, in the face of faster and stronger attack aircraft, the slow airship is the target.

It is precisely because several large countries have invested huge sums of money in airships that airships look huge, but in terms of processing and manufacturing, it is not a problem, it is not a hard skeleton, which can be constructed with steel or wood or something, and then there is the external hull, which is much easier than the manufacture of warships, 20 days if it is fast, and it can be built in a month if it is slow.

Britain and France support Paris, it is these airships, with the two big powers plus the United States manufacturing, it is expected that before the spring of next year, a total of more than 270 airships are guaranteed to go to Paris, which is an extremely large number, far more than the total amount currently built and held by Germany, and even these airships have been armed accordingly, and some even have some artillery guns on them, all of which are small cannons under 50 mm, but they are also relatively strange.

However, Britain and France do not think this is a strange thing, after the airship has firepower, it can attack other airships, and in the case that the airship has not been exhausted, the army rashly attacked, and the group charge is a disaster, as long as France has an advantage in the airship, it is not afraid of Germany to conquer Paris.

In addition to supporting Paris, Britain and France were not idle in the winter, he aimed at the occupied zone, the German blitzkrieg, Schlieffen plan was implemented very smoothly, a total of more than 200,000 troops were captured in Belgium, in France, hundreds of thousands, plus Russia's million army, more than 2 million prisoners, plus the huge occupation zone, although temporarily suppressed because of Germany's strong strength, but the foundation was not stable.

For hundreds of years, Britain's unilateral and powerful naval power has adopted a combination of vertical and horizontal means on the road, such as the shocking Napoleon, the sea coachman Holland, Spain, these countries that once dominated the land were all wiped out under the British means, and if you count history, Germany is also such a victim.

The British and French intelligence services began to fan the flames incessantly in the winter, and arranged some resistance forces, which caused some trouble for Germany.

For Germany, which has been fully mobilized, these troubles are really not big, at most it would be good to send troops to suppress them, but Britain and France actually targeted the prisoner of war camps, where all the soldiers are detained, and any slightest incident will cause big trouble, not to mention that the number of prisoners of war is very large, the number of 2 million is almost the same as the current German regular army, and to take care of them, it is necessary to occupy a large amount of military strength.

Independent confrontation against Britain, France and Russia, even if it is as strong as Germany, it is also a little clumsy, any bit of strength can not be wasted casually, and there are occupied areas, for a while, Germany almost couldn't react, almost by the Belgian rebels, broke through a temporary construction of a prisoner of war camp, liberated, although there are only 30,000 people, but the already pacified Belgium, the rebels are just a skin itch of a few thousand people, more than 30,000 regular troops, that is a big deal.

For this reason, Germany increased the supervision of prisoner of war camps, and even some radical military high-ranking people proposed to execute some prisoners of war in order to reduce the pressure on the German side, after all, history is written by the victors, and when the time comes, as long as the war is won, the means in the war will be insignificant. There is actually a big market for such a theory in Germany, and some high-level generals who have already seen the dawn of victory are eager to put all their military strength into it.

However, the Kaiser is still hesitating, it's not that he is indecisive, if he really gives the order, this blood is too much, the current German prisoners, has exceeded 2 million, behind 2 million young adults, is 2 million families, millions of people, if this blood feud is settled, even if Germany can expand the chassis, it will definitely not be able to control the peace.

However, otherwise, the occupation zone, prisoner of war camps, and domestic defense occupy a lot of troops, so that Germany cannot fully devote itself to the strategy of France and Russia, which is not a suitable choice for Germany, is there a way to get the best of both worlds?

Yang Yuanzhao's request was sent to Berlin during this time period, and was sent to the Kaiser by the Northwest Ambassador to Berlin, and the Kaiser himself did not attach much importance to it, but after reading it, his eyes only lit up, and the Northwest's request just solved his dilemma, which was a way to get the best of both worlds. (To be continued......)