Airships are not a rare commodity, as early as 100 years ago, in 1784, the French Robert brothers built a human-powered airship. Even this spindle-shaped, independent airbag, framed by steel girders and wooden pestles, and hard airships with mechanical propulsion were manufactured in France as early as 20 years ago. Compared with the French "France", the airship made by the Qing Dynasty was larger, faster, and had a larger carrying capacity.

The 103-meter-long airship with a diameter of 26 meters and 36 independent airbags inside has a maximum ceiling of 2,000 meters, which can lift a load of no more than five tons with a total weight of no more than five tons, except for the airship itself. A 15-horsepower gasoline engine is suspended on either side of the ironwood pendant, which can be pushed to a speed of 150 kilometers per hour with the help of rudders and double-bladed propellers. Because it was not possible to carry out a complete test, according to calculations, the self-contained fuel tank alone would be enough for the use of the airship for a thousand kilometers, and it would be possible to continue to propel the airship to fly, albeit slowly, manpoweredly.

In order to ensure safety, Guangxu originally wanted to fill helium to provide buoyancy, but the cost of helium refining was too expensive, and the cost of building a helium refining plant alone cost tens of millions of Singapore dollars, forcing Guangxu to agree to use hydrogen. In order to prevent static sparks from turning the entire airship into a fireball, while using a double-skin shell, all airbags and skins are treated with special tarpaulin, and are treated with full sealing...... Despite giving the most protection to all conceivable dangers, filled hydrogen is always a danger.

Although Zeppelin, the best R&D leader in Guangxu's heart, accidentally drowned because he refused the invitation of the Qing Dynasty. However, the airship, a product that has not yet entered the field of various yankuai affairs, naturally does not have enough confidentiality measures, and according to the information obtained from abroad, the flying laboratory located in the Guangxu Islands is still independently developed. The ultra-long-distance transportation of a large number of materials and the R&D expenses of tens of millions of Singapore dollars have temporarily suspended the construction of the second-generation submarines that were originally about to be built.

Fifteen airships are a year-and-a-half-year output of all factories in the Guangxu Islands. Guangxu knew that the sky in the future belonged to the aircraft, but in order to train qualified pilots in advance for the planes that were only on the drawings, Guangxu gritted his teeth and paid out of his own pocket to subsidize the flying laboratory.

The research and development of any new military product is full of dangers, and Guangxu Island is a small island in the sea, where the wind direction is uncertain and fluctuating. Only the scientists were ordered not to board the test airship. There are also many soldiers who died because of the test. However, the airship eventually appeared in the sequence of weapons and equipment of the Qing army. When the airship completed the test and officially mass-produced the equipment unit, Guangxu left the naming right to Ren Pengfei, the first commander of the Air Force and the former navigation staff officer of the Navy's Pacific Fleet.

Ren Pengfei, a navigation staff officer, was discovered in the Nanyang Qingying ship collision accident. As long as the enemy can be detected earlier in a naval battle, the more time there will be to prepare. Therefore, he was the only person who wrote to request the purchase of airships that had been developed in Europe as the eyes and ears of the fleet. When the first sample of the airship was being assembled and ready for testing, Guangxu was having a headache about how to find this future commander of the Qing Air Force, the history of the Chinese Air Force started too late and there was nothing to learn from, and when he saw this proposal, he didn't say a word and threw this Ren Pengfei, who had the right name and ideas, to Guangxu Island.

When Ren Pengfei was still happy to establish a new observation system for the Qing Navy, the newly developed new artillery shells with a tail fin similar to mortars were transported to Guangxu Island. At this time, Ren Pengfei knew. This new batch of guys, called aerial bombs, is used to equip airships. At this time, Ren Pengfei knew that the emperor was going to form an independent airship into an army and launch a deadly attack on the enemy from a high altitude.

The training was dangerous and painful, but it must be the first time that human beings have entered a place that they have longed for for thousands of years. The groping from scratch made them pay too much, but no matter how hard and tired they were, they were not stumped, but they were stumped because they wanted to name the airship. They found that they were not satisfied with the names they had given to them, who had only been studying since joining the fleet, so during a bomb throwing exercise, someone shouted: This is like my hen laying eggs. So these airships have a new name - flying chickens.

Plane? When the name was submitted to the emperor for approval, Guangxu had just arrived at home, but after hearing this name, the queen was startled excitedly. I thought they had got the plane out, but it turned out to be a flying chicken, taken from a flying hen. Guangxu was in a cold sweat. Flying chicken-class airship, flying chicken-class, flying yankuai...... Well, anyway, the name was not taken by Lao Tzu, and future generations will not be able to scold Lao Tzu. Guangxu agreed, but strictly ordered that the person who took the name must be recorded.

Ren Pengfei led the world's first air force to fly over the ocean, and their first battle was to directly attack Tokyo through the tight positions of the Japanese army, so that the Japanese would know what fear was. As the emperor said, let the enemy be afraid of bombs from the sky all the time everywhere.

Fifteen airships flew in a line towards the north. There was nothing in the sky to guide them to fly, but the brightly lit ships on the sea pointed them in the right direction. The soldiers on land didn't understand why they were lighting a raging fire that way, but it was warm in winter. Only the Air Force flying in the sky knew that it was the arrows pointing them in the right direction. It took them nearly an hour and a half from liftoff to flying over Tokyo. They did not sail at maximum speed, and that was because it was dark and could not look for the target.

In winter, the sky is only white at half past six in the morning, but the earth is lit up before seven o'clock. Perhaps because of the nearly 300,000 troops of the empire gathered around Tokyo, the citizens of Tokyo believed that the government would defend Tokyo. So life goes on, and it is placed on the side of the road early. The crowd rushing to work either walked or sat and ate breakfast. Because there was nothing unusual in the distance, the roar of the ground getting closer and closer did not arouse the alarm of the citizens of Tokyo, who only muttered that they did not know what the army was doing. As the roar became quieter, the citizens of Tokyo thought that the army had gone far, and they did not know that yes, in fact, the airship began to slow down after approaching its target.

The snow on the ground has not melted, and it is even more bitterly cold at an altitude of 1,500 meters. Guangxu Island is located in the warm tropics, although the altitude is cold, but it is not so cold, this is the cold winter in the north. No matter how thick you wear, it seems that you can't resist the biting cold.

"It is necessary to strengthen the training of the Air Force in all climates." Ren Pengfei trembled and climbed on the pod and looked down, and it was already Tokyo under his feet. Because the sun was still struggling at sea level, the huge shadow of the airship was not cast on the city of Tokyo. It's good that the Air Force can launch a surprise attack. Ren Pengfei nodded, so all the airships saw the red and green light signal from the No. 1 boat. This is the order for the start of the attack.

The five airships 11 to 15 immediately turned to the pier and flew away, aiming for the six warships docked at the Tokyo pier. Because each airship requires five operators, it can only carry 200 kg of bombs and 20 pieces. The Air Force's first tactical purpose was to sink a warship with these 100 bombs, and the first target was the most seriously wounded Shikishima.

"Steady, steady—" The magazine was opened, and the cold wind blew in from the bomb port and began to shake the entire airship. The observer had a safety rope tied around his waist and climbed onto the improvised sight as if nothing had happened. The Shikishima, which is about to enter the aiming star. The two bombardiers next to him nervously switched the bomb switches.

"Ready, ready-" The observer's voice made the bombardier quickly grasp the bomb handle.

"Bomb dropping-" With the voice of the observer, the bombardier pulled up the handle and turned on the magazine switch, and the bomb that had lost its restraint poured down.

"Boom-" A loud explosion was heard from the pier of Tokyo Bay, and a bright red mushroom cloud rose. When all the citizens of Tokyo stopped and turned their heads to look at the pier. A series of explosions rang out in Tokyo Bay, and clusters of fireballs sparked a fire in Tokyo Bay. The flames of Tokyo City under the morning sun are so fierce.

In just ten minutes, the Tokyo pier is already on fire. A wooden transport ship next to the Shikishima docked at the pier in Tokyo Bay was torn apart by the sound of the explosion after only one bomb was hit, and from time to time there were people running on the pier who were overturned by the air waves of the explosion, and a little blood was sprinkled all over the pier. The workers and soldiers were blown up by the bombs, and the people who had managed to find a safe place had different faces, not to mention the warships on the sea in the distance, but they couldn't even see the smoke columns, where did the bombs come from?

"Qingguo has come in. Qing Guo called--" I don't know who shouted in the street, as if to confirm what was shouted, and there were more and more explosions and more fires in Tokyo Bay. The crowd panicked, they knew that there were rumors that the Qing army was going to slaughter the city of Tokyo, and now they couldn't care if it was true or not. Everyone's first thought was to run home to pack up their valuables and run north out of Tokyo City with their families, so the citizens of Tokyo inevitably crowded and stamped in order to fight for the road, and then fought violently. Someone in the crowd who fell to the ground in the push finally noticed the anomaly, screaming heavenly, heavenly. It was just the panicked screams and the surging crowd that drowned out his voice.

"What the hell is going on?" Received a report that the dock was attacked, but was surprised that the report did not find the text of the Kiyoyankuai ship, which set Yama Prefecture Aritomo on fire, he is not an idiot. He was well aware of the range of the artillery of the Qing Navy. Where did the shells that attacked the docks come from?

The police are always the most basic management unit of the city, and their most basic task is to maintain the order of the city. The police in Tokyo were dutiful, and instead of taking off their uniforms and blending into the fleeing crowd, they rushed into the streets with batons and shrill whistles. Attempt to maintain order in the city.

Mao Taizu said that the power of the people is infinite. In the face of the surging crowds, the efforts of the Tokyo police did not work. The crowd that only knew how to flee for their lives was storming everything that dared to stand in the way, including the police. Finally, a policeman heard the voice of the fallen man shouting for heaven and earth, and he looked up at the sky. In the sky, huge things like duck eggs are dropping black objects. When these objects fall on the roof and ground, they emit huge explosions and ignited fires. That's when he realized that the duck eggs were bombs.

The news must be escalated immediately. The police who noticed the anomaly tried to squeeze out of the crowd, but found themselves involuntarily being carried in an unknown direction by the crowd, and there was no room for resistance.

Knowing that the chaos in Tokyo had spread to the entire city, Yamaprefecture Aritomo roared and ordered: "Order the Guards Division to enter Tokyo immediately......"

"Boom-" A bomb passed through the roof and landed in the room opposite the courtyard where Shan Shan was located, and the air wave of the explosion tore over the roof, and the broken doors and windows smashed through the door of Shan County's house, injuring Youpeng in Shan County, and also smashing his words.

"Drop bombs, drop bombs-" The No. 3 to No. 10 airships formed in pairs, and as soon as they reached the air above the target, they immediately dropped bombs and attacked.

More and more bombs fell on the city ......of Tokyo, the Diet, the Prime Minister's Office, the headquarters camp, and the Military Command Department...... All government offices were hit by bombs falling from the sky, and the Tokyo Police Station was not immune. From time to time, bombs fell on the streets, flying corpses and splashed blood like a lifeline that made the already helpless civilians even more panicked, and under the attack of bombs in the sky, some police officers finally gave up their duties and joined the sequence of fleeing, and the city of Tokyo inevitably lost the last control.

The Qing Air Force in the sky is inspecting the actual combat effect through the bomb bay. The results were very good, all the main targets were hit, and a small number of bombs caused chaos in the whole city, but the main targets were not able to be destroyed, but the surrounding buildings were even more damaged. The staff officers on each airship recorded the results of the battle and added a sentence: the hit rate is a big problem. At this time, the No. 1 and No. 2 airships had just flown over the Imperial Palace of Japan.

At this time, the Japanese Imperial Palace was gloomy and heavily guarded. There were guards at the gate and on the city wall, the carriage was ready, and the palace attendants were nervously loading the goods into the carriage. The Emperor had already made a well-planned northern tour, and as soon as he received news of the arrival of the Qing army in Tokyo, the Emperor would set off immediately, and was now making final preparations.

Emperor Meiji, who was having breakfast, was eating without a bite, and as soon as the explosion in Tokyo City was heard, he had already ordered him to prepare for the tour. However, he has asked the cabinet three times about the situation, but the reply he received was that he had not found the Qing army. The city of Tokyo was attacked, and the base camp did not find the Qing army?

Suddenly there were all kinds of panicked voices outside the door, and Meiji, who was already upset, frowned even tighter: "Why is it so noisy?" ”

Meiji's majestic voice came out of the palace, and the guards guarding outside the gate pushed open the palace door and nervously echoed, "A monster has appeared in the sky." Please rest assured that the guards are ready to ensure Your Majesty's safety. After the guard finished speaking, he closed the door and left the palace without waiting for the emperor to speak.

When did the Imperial Samurai become so rude? Meiji took the case, he wanted to see for himself what kind of monster could scare me?

"Let's finish breakfast first." The Empress of Meiji said.

Meiji looked down at his rice bowl, there was not much left. Waste is not a good habit, especially for Japan, which is short of food, and it is precisely because of Meiji's good habit that he saved his life. Meiji sat down and finished his meal in three or two bites, stood up and walked outside. Before he could speak at the door, a bomb fell into the courtyard outside the temple, and the temple door was blown open by a huge blast, and at the same time, it also neutralized some of the impact and fragments.

With a "bang", Meiji watched the door of the temple being pushed open in front of his eyes, and the cold wind that followed blew on his face. Meiji forgot the pain of the sand on his face, all he knew was that the temple door was sliding right in front of his eyes, and if he took another step forward, the temple gate would hit him hard. The courtyard outside the gate was unrecognizable, and a huge pit was surrounded by blood-dripping guards, and the sound of a dense explosion rang out.

Before Meiji could get angry, the immobile guards threw the emperor down and crushed him, so Meiji saw the once luxurious imperial palace collapse under artillery fire. What's going on? Who can tell me?

Although the airship can theoretically stay in the air, it can't do it in practice, or it hasn't been able to do it. Ren Pengfei's No. 1 boat still maintained a slower speed in order to resist the blowing attack of high-altitude winds. The Japanese Imperial Palace below has been out of its own bombing range, and now it is the No. 2 boat that is bombing. Ren Pengfei carefully assessed the effect of the bombing and ordered: "Turn your head and do it again." (To be continued.) )xh118