Betty frowned, standing on the bridge, the navy is the attacking service, the fast fleet, and the light cavalry among the main ships of the navy, advocating the use of speed, detouring the opponent, and then winning the naval battle, the idea of attacking, almost integrated into his bones. But now, he can only wait in vain, and he can't do anything without the detection of the airship.

In the past 24 hours, one bad news came, sure enough, their anti-submarine fleet was attacked by the Germans, when did the Germans become so bold and aggressive, through the contact with the Admiralty, he knew that with the help of the airship, they only had to go in the established direction, but slightly different from before, he also began to turn, in the area where the airship observed, flexibly began to operate, in order to ensure that he could react in the fastest time, follow the footsteps of the airship.

Lost his hand, just smoked half of the cigarette, Betty will not know, even if it is the cigarette in his hand, it is made in the Northwest, and the Northwest products are marketed all over the world, this is not a joke, Betty doesn't like British cigarettes, those are a little too punchy, but he likes this kind of cigarette with a faint mellow aroma, with his identity, even if this is twice as expensive as British cigarettes, he can afford it.

Walking into the command room, the current battleship command room, in fact, to a certain extent, is the information room, in which more than 30 information officers, are listening carefully to the radio horn station, radio reliability in this era is not strong, but whether it is in the battleship, or on the airship, a large number of radio stations are placed, after all, only this is the largest space, especially the battleship. There are enough cabins for this, when the number is overwhelming. Reliability is still there, and the least connection message is OK.

Betty was disappointed, though. There is no news, at this time, the morning star in the sky has not completely disappeared, the time is still early, according to the agreement, the airship troops will arrive at the first target sea area at about half past six in the morning, and they are not far from there.

Countless commands, through the flag. The surrounding warships were notified, and the well-trained and fast battleships quickly completed the turn and headed towards the designated area.

In the night sky where the sun rises, countless points of light ripple in the sky and the sea, and it seems that there is beauty in harmony.

Three hours passed in a flash, and after the airship troops met with the fast fleet, they showed a fan-shaped separation, and the fast fleet. Unhurriedly cruising at a speed of about 15 knots, followed behind, even if all of them are cutting-edge fast warships, the lowest speed is also more than 27 knots. However, in non-combat periods, 15 knots is already a fairly fast speed.

According to the plan, as long as the airship troops found each other. At most, it will be a distance of seventy or eighty nautical miles, and then it will be at full speed. In two or three hours at most, you will be able to catch up with each other. At that time, it was only noon or two or three o'clock in the afternoon, with a fleet of nearly 100 and 10 capital ships of the fast fleet, Betty did not believe that he would not be able to win the battle in a few hours.

Today's sunny weather makes any movement on the sea surface relatively clear, and it can be seen clearly at intervals of twenty or thirty nautical miles, but there is no gain for several hours, which is more or less frustrating, and there are all kinds of noises from the radio station, which affects the hearing of the correspondents, but in the last contact, the other airships have not found any trace of the German fleet.

The captain looked at the chart in his hand, calculated the position with a measuring instrument, and compared with the range drawn before, he had almost half of the exploration, and at most half of it, that is, 3 hours, he could see it.

A British soldier observed the sea area he was responsible for, his eyes seemed to be a little tired, almost subconsciously saw a large number of black spots in the distance, he thought it was just a seabird, he felt interesting, he didn't care much when he looked in that direction with a telescope, but found that the dense black spots were all airships, huge, exactly the same airship as here.

In unfamiliar waters, when searching for German warships, he encountered a large number of airships, what does this mean, the soldier was very clear, carefully observed the paint on the airship, and sure enough, he found the German symbol on it, like the Royal Navy, after the airship achieved great results, it was also named Royal, and the paint on it had obvious Wilhelm royal logo.

The other party is German, the purpose must be obvious, on the airship, one by one the muzzles stretched out, representing their armament, this is aimed at them.

Enemy attack, a slightly slightly changed voice, on the empty sea, it seemed so abrupt, the captain who didn't know what was going on, was about to blame him, but when he looked at it under the guidance of the soldiers, his scalp couldn't help but go numb, the airship was very huge, more than 100 meters of huge length, width and height, it didn't look much smaller than a large ship, when hundreds of airships, densely distributed in the air, the visual impact was extremely large.

The captain of the ship immediately set off the alarm to inform the people around him, and also connected the other teams with radio, and the Germans actually sent a large number of airships to attack them. The war, it seems, has already begun, and it is directly the bayonet that cannot be dodged.

The distance between the two sides is almost more than 30 nautical miles, in fact, if they looked at that place, they should have found out that 30 nautical miles, that is, 50 kilometers, what can they do, for the airship, it is only an hour's journey, or even less than an hour at full speed, the control of the airship is poor, they can brake urgently, but the inertia will also let them float forward, unless they make an emergency landing, but in the case of losing altitude, the consequences are even more terrible, Even if they stopped alone, the airship around them was still advancing.

In the end, the team chose to contact the surrounding airships, bravely moving forward, both sides moving forward, even if one side slowed down slightly, but the two sides still made contact within 40 minutes.

In fact, when the two sides were fighting, there were only 2 airship squads, which came to the side of this team, 15 ships against 120 ships on the opposite side, such a war with a huge disparity, finally broke out, the first large-scale duel between airships, broke out between the two sides, and the airships with extremely poor protection, the process of the war went a little faster.

In the case of super asymmetry, the battle is solved, and the 15:1 shoot-down ratio, even if it is an absolute disadvantage, is almost 10:1, according to the comparison between ordinary warships, the winning side will not pay too much price, but the air battle is different. Even if the opponent is at an absolute disadvantage, it will give the German airship a certain amount of damage, which is a problem that the airship cannot avoid, and the defense is too poor.

In fact, among all the aircraft, they are strong in attack and weak in defense, even if they occupy the world's air, it is the same, in the extreme state, if it can be hit, the first generation of aircraft cannons can cause damage to the fourth generation of aircraft, depending on the size of the damage.

The aircraft considers more maneuverability, load capacity and speed, never relies on external protection, and reduces weight as much as possible, which is what the aircraft needs to do, so in terms of materials, use some polymer composite materials, lightweight materials, and even wood and paper to reduce weight as much as possible. The aircraft after the second generation in the later period chose over-the-horizon attack, stealth performance, and so on.

Even if the German side has a large number of airships and strong firepower, the opponent can still concentrate its firepower to attack one or two airships, and shoot them down 15:1, but there are still 2-3 airships injured. The injured airship withdrew from the battle, and the downed airship was also rescued, after the airship was shot down, it is impossible to destroy people like an airplane, when the buoyancy is lost, as long as the remaining buoyancy is not as much as the aircraft of later generations, much heavier than the air, it will not be like a big iron ball, quickly sinking in the air, it will only fall slowly, 4000 meters in the air, not enough gas to leak all, the setting of various small airbags, will make the airship maintain a certain buoyancy, unless the other party chases to fight.

Leave a part of the airship, rescue and escort the injured airship, the rest is to find other British airships, the search process is also quite easy, they do not have enough calculation tools and reconnaissance means, but the rest of the battle, this battle has been transmitted to the base camp by radio, the German staff received the airship report, quickly carried out analysis, with the method of substitution, the British airship may appear in the area to mark out one by one, in careful consideration, these locations are marked one by oneand finally put it into practice.

The German airship was divided into two parts, from two sides, began to hunt down the other squads, and began with a big and small attack, the bad radio on the British side was the biggest failure, the radio signal of the airship that was shot down before, some lucky ones crossed the vast space, and were received by the fast fleet and the Admiralty respectively, but around, received very little, it can be said unceremoniously, this side also relied on the distance luck to concentrate 3 squads, and the only 3 squads received, and the rest, It was only possible to fight more than 50 airships with 5 ships, and several times even when it was discovered, it was already close to a distance of 5 nautical miles, and it was too late to even prepare.

Over the course of three hours, a large number of British airships were shot down, and only two squads escaped after being informed of the radio notification from the front. The first wave of attacks yielded initial results, with 50 of the 60 airships sunk, and the Germans also shot down 4 and 11 damaged, almost overwhelmingly victorious. (To be continued......)