This day is an extremely rare windless day in winter. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even more rare is the scorching sun in the sky, the blue sky is like a wash and there is not even a single cloud, this is an extremely rare good time in winter, for those Russian soldiers who endure the tension in the state of war and torture the fortress, this is the best time.

This time can even make them forget about the war and come to the sunshine to enjoy the bright sunshine. At first, these Russian soldiers were very cautious, although the sun was attractive, but they were also worried about the Chinese shelling, but after waiting for a long time, the Chinese artillery fell silent, and it seemed that the Chinese were also enjoying the sun.

Slowly, more and more soldiers came to the top of the fortress, or to the open artillery forts and fortifications, enjoying the rare sun, even the officers.

As a private, Ivanovich was undoubtedly lucky, when he came to the battery duty, it was the sunshine at its brightest, he walked around the battery, while enjoying the sunshine, occasionally, he would cast his eyes on the blue sky, his eyes squinted into a slit to feel the heat of the sun, sometimes, he would put down the heavy rifle in his hand, quietly enjoy the sun.

Ivanovich, who just turned 20 this year, is from Kyiv, Ukraine, but he is not a Cossack, just an ordinary Ukrainian farmer on the farm, for whom military service is inevitable. Like everyone else, he counted down every day, counting down the time when his military service would end, and now there were less than three months left before he had completed his service.

But now, hope has been dashed - war has broken out. At least until the end of the war. There was no way he could go back to the farm. Back to the girl he loves.

In two months, spring will arrive, and only then will the seemingly ordinary sunshine not be as precious as it is now.

At this time, Ivanovich is reminiscing about the good times in his homeland, the steppes, rivers, fields and forests of Ukraine, and the best thing is that there will be no Siberian cold. Even in winter, the sun is always shining. It's a pity that everything is just a good memory for him now.

"Damn the Chinese guys! You damned yellow monkeys deserve hell! ”

Annoyed that his term of service had been extended indefinitely, Ivanovich cursed viciously while enjoying the sun. Like other Russian soldiers. They always "attribute" their misfortunes to China's "invasion", never thinking that it was their bandits who first seized other people's land.

Of course, for them, they never thought about these issues, and for greedy Russians, it seems that it is normal and "righteous" to occupy someone else's land, and to take possession of someone else's land is a sin in their eyes.

I don't know how long it has been. When Ivanovich raised his head again, suddenly. The black dots that appeared in the sky attracted his attention, what was that?

At this moment, the sound of hurried footsteps made the puzzled Ivanovich quickly retract his gaze, and hurriedly ran back to his post with his rifle, which he heard was the sound of the officers' military boots - it was the slight sound of spurs, and there were no spurs on the boots of ordinary soldiers.

"General, you see, there they are!"

A captain on duty pointed to more than 20 small black dots floating in the sky in the distance, and standing beside him was General Kondrave, as well as several other officers.

"What is this?"

Kondruff said in surprise as he watched through the telescope as the strange huge silvery-white float got closer and closer.

"Is it an airship?"

In the absence of wind, they can move freely, albeit at a low speed, and their targets are clearly flying in the direction of the fortress. At the current speed of the branch, they will soon be above the fortress.

"General, it's an airship, that's right, it's a Chinese airship!"

One of the lieutenants explained that as a noble officer, he had traveled in Europe before becoming an officer, and naturally he had seen European airships.

"Yes, it's an airship, it's also seen here, it's used by the Chinese for high-altitude reconnaissance. But it looks like the airship here is bigger, no, much bigger. ”

Another officer added.

"Maybe it's because they flew high before, but now they fly a lot lower, it should be for reconnaissance......"

"Scouting? No way! Could it be that more than 20 airships are just for reconnaissance fortresses? ”

Seeing these airships, Kondruff's whole person seemed very puzzled, he had also heard about airships, but they were just tools of adventurers, its military use, before the Chinese transported, no one had heard or thought of it, those rumors, the Chinese soldiers who fell from the sky, may have jumped from the airship, although he did not know how the soldiers jumped from the airship, but he knew that the appearance of the airship changed many things.

Not to mention, with airships, soldiers can land from the sky, and even those balloons that are kilometers away have brought a lot of changes to the war - with the help of balloons, they can stay high and down, so that every move in the fortress is in their eyes, and even their artillery, under the guidance of the balloons, can accurately smash the cannonballs on the fortress parts.

"These Chinese are always able to apply those new technologies to warfare......"

Thinking of the heavy use of light machine guns and heavy machine guns by the Chinese in this war, as well as the current airships, Kondrav couldn't help but sigh, as if sighing for the conservatism of the Russian Empire,

When Kondruff lamented the Chinese's application of new technologies, in the No. 2 airship pod flying several kilometers away, in an area of tens of square meters, there were 4 soldiers, and beside them, the wooden pod cranes stored up to 6,000 kg of bombs, and the heaviest was a 2,000 kg bomb, only one, which was finally dropped as the counterweight of the airship. As for the other 4000 kg bombs. It is stacked in four batches in the pod. It was around the perimeter of that heavy bomb.

While the captain and pilot are manipulating the rudder wheel and controlling the ropes to adjust the direction of flight. At the very front of the pod, the aimer is aiming at the fortress with the help of a mechanical bombing sight, this kind of sight developed by the airship crew itself looks extremely simple, only the angle disc and the ruler of the mechanical sight structure is simple, but the bombing accuracy is quite high, and the use is extremely simple, since the successful development two years ago. It became the standard equipment of the airship unit, but in the cabin, the four bombardiers seemed extremely relaxed. Since it was not their turn to get busy, a few of them stood and looked out, waving from time to time to the rest of their companions on the airship.

In fact, their job was very simple - just after receiving the order, they opened the bomb delivery hatch, then pulled down the bomb stick in turn, and the rest was left to gravity - the bomb would fall to the ground in free fall under the influence of gravity.

"Report the current wind direction. Fly at high speed with enemy ship bearings! ”

The captain of the airship took out his pocket watch and saw that it was 1:40 p.m. Looked up and asked the observer next to him.

"Continue to be windless. The current altitude is 1000 meters. ”

"7,000 meters from the fortress, at the current flight speed, 5 minutes to the combat area."

The speed of the formation was determined by the slowest and most massive "Canglong 3" airship, and at an altitude of 1,500 meters, there were six VIP boats with a bomb load of only 1.5 tons, and they did not participate in the first round of bombing.

"Keeping the current speed constant, open the air chamber valve, and gradually descend to a flight altitude of 700 meters. Note! It is important to keep the airship stable. After 2 minutes, everyone entered a state of imminent battle. ”

As soon as the captain had finished issuing the order, he turned his head and shouted loudly into the aluminum microphone beside him.

"Alright, brethren, the rest is up to you!"

The aluminium microphone brought the captain's words to the ears of the observers and bombardiers, who were just leisurely preparing for the impending bombardment, their eyes fixed on the lights on the bulkheads, and if the red lights turned green, it meant that they were going to pull down the bombardiers.

In nervous anticipation, the sight man sitting on the leather chair leaned forward, at this time he was like a rifleman, with the help of a mechanical ruler to aim at the fortress, from his line of sight, the fortress is a typical fortress fortress, above the fortress you can see a heavy cannon, around the fortress, there are dense trenches, fortresses, but in his eyes, this seemingly insurmountable fortress, but like paper paste, now, his task is to tear this fortress apart.

"Prepare to drop the bomb!"

When the command of the sighter was heard from the microphone, the bombardiers immediately got busy, first untied the first buckle, which was the fixed buckle of the bomb, and then unfastened the safety of the bomb lever, and after the two fuses were lifted, they could even feel the bomb on the wooden iron pylons swaying slightly, all with a look of impatience.

A few minutes later, the airship reached exactly 700 meters above the target area, and directly below the airship was the Russian Cobra Fort, a large fortress covering an area of nearly one square kilometer.

"Stop flying?"

The captain asked again.

"Maintain a high altitude!"

"Continuous and non-stop bombing, it is necessary to completely destroy the fortress of the Russians."

As the orders were given one after another, on the Cobra fortress, Kondrav and the officers were looking up at the big guy overhead, although some people knew that this thing was called an airship, but they didn't know why the airship was moored above the fortress, was it to attack the fortress?

Out of an abundance of caution, as the airship approached the fortress, Kondrav ordered a battalion to deploy defenses to deal with the threat from the air.

It wasn't until five holes were opened in the bottom of the stationary airship that Kondrav suddenly felt uneasy in his heart when he saw the holes through the telescope, and he suddenly shouted as if he had realized it:

"Damn, the Chinese are going to drop bombs! Take cover! All free fire, targets, airships......"

It's just that Kondraf's order was given too late, and when the words landed, more than a dozen small black dots fell quickly from the sky, all of them were high-explosive shells weighing only 50 kilograms, although their weight seemed to be small, but in fact its charge coefficient was as high as 35%, and its power was much higher than that of a shell with only a 10% charge. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen bombs fell into the fortress, and the violent explosion engulfed half of the fortress in an instant, and countless high-explosive fragments exploded in the fortress.

Compared with artillery shells, aerial bombs are more powerful, raining bombs from the cabins of more than a dozen airships into the fortress and the defense line around the fortress, in the first air-to-ground bombing in the history of mankind, those Russian soldiers who were still enjoying the winter sun before panicked, scrambling to dodge the bombs from a height, as for the rifles in their hands, they could not pose any threat to the airship at an altitude of 700 meters.

They could only watch as the bombs fell on the fortress and all over the defensive line; They want to resist, but they can't threaten the airship in the air, and they want to escape, but they will be torn apart by shards of steel.

"Damn the Chinese guys!"

In the fortress, looking at the fortress in flames, Condrav cursed and shouted new orders, ordering the troops to enter the fortress, into the Serpentine Fort, and into the bunkers on the edge of the trenches. Now, the fortress seems to be the only hiding place that can protect them from bombing.

"If I return to St. Petersburg, I will definitely tell everyone that Russia also needs airships......"

At the same time as the bombardment in the air was underway, the artillery on the ground also joined in, and carried out shells towards the fortress, but unlike usual, the shells they fired were not high-explosive shells, both old pepper bombs and new tear gas bombs, yellow and red smoke soon enveloped the entire mountain, smoke of various colors poured into the bunker along the shooting holes and gates, many people coughed violently in the choking smoke, and the tearful people could only soak the towels to cover their mouths and noses, But this is only a futile struggle.

"Ahem...... what is this, ahem......"

There was a constant coughing sound in his throat, and although he didn't know what the smoke was, in the smoke, Kondrav felt a familiar smell - the smell of chili peppers, the smell of chili peppers when they burned, and in this choking and irritating smoke, listening to the explosion outside the bunker, he guessed the intention of the Chinese. Kondrav almost instinctively thought he had seen through the Chinese's plot - he wanted to use pepper bombs to drive people out of bunkers and then use them to reap lives.

"These Chinese people want to use this pepper smoke to drive us out, and order everyone to never leave the bunker unless Chinese attack......" (To be continued. )