617 Airship Armageddon
Four Monkey King airships flew to the Japanese airship base, and on this day, the sky was high and cloudy, the sun was shining, and the visibility was excellent.
The Japanese army deployed an observation post on the top of the mountain to monitor the sky in the direction of Hainan to guard against a sudden attack by the Monkey King's airship.
When the four Monkey King airships were still more than 40 kilometers away from the Japanese airship base, the Japanese observation post discovered them, and the observer immediately sent a message to Yuki Izawa -- the four Huaxia airships were flying in the direction of Guangzhou Port.
Haize Yuki couldn't imagine that the combat target of the Monkey King airship was them, and Hai Ze Yuki thought that the Monkey King airship wanted to attack Guangzhou and avenge the people who died in the air raid in Macau, and he didn't have to think about it, the people of the Qing Kingdom were Lin Fei's compatriots, how could Lin Fei take revenge on them.
So Uizawa Yuki unhurriedly ordered his subordinates not to dispatch first, and when the Huaxia airship ran out of shells, we would attack them again.
After the last battle, Yuki Kaizawa and his subordinates summarized the battle, and in the summary, Yuki Kaizawa pointed out: "During the entire operation, the Huaxia airships did not attack us, which shows that they have no shells, and if they have shells, it is impossible for them not to open fire." ”
After further analysis, Yuki Uizawa believes that the reason why the Huaxia airship did not have shells was because the Huaxia airship was not allowed to return to the home with bombs, and the bombs landed, and every time the Huaxia airship sorted, all the shells had to be used up before it could return.
When Yuki Uizawa got this conclusion, he planned to wait for the Monkey King airship to finish all the shells, and then attack while the Monkey King airship had no shells.
Yuki Izawa ordered his subordinates to prepare for liftoff, and then began to wait for the four Monkey King airships to return, and ten minutes later, the observer suddenly reported: "Captain, it seems that the four Huaxia airships are not going to bomb the port of Guangzhou, but to attack us, and their route is actually coming straight for us." ”
Yuki Haysawa was taken aback and hurriedly ordered: "All airships, take off to meet the battle." ”
The Japanese airship was ordered to be "famous general", and the name of the ship was named after the famous generals of ancient Japan, such as the one that Yuki Haysawa rode on, which was called "Oda Nobunaga", Oda Nobunaga was a person in the Warring States period of Japan, and he was well-versed in the use of soldiers, and was touted as the "god of war" by the Japanese in later generations.
The Japanese soldiers on the six "famous generals" untied the anchor chains, turned on the internal combustion engine, and lifted the general-class airship into the sky, and the Monkey King airship was waiting for them at an altitude of two thousand meters.
The launch time of the general-class airship was late, so the Monkey King airship occupied a height advantage, and Lin Gecheng saw that the six general-class airships had taken off one after another, and immediately ordered the gunner to open a test shot.
They don't know the specific size data of the Japanese airship, so it is difficult to carry out accurate ranging, if they want to hit the Japanese airship, they have to use the method of test firing of artillery shells, shoot out a shell, see the trajectory of the shell, if the shells can hit the enemy, then fire one after another, if the shells can not hit the enemy, then fly close and then fight.
The four Monkey King airships fired cannonballs one after another, this time they used tracer shells, the cannonballs could draw a ray of light in the air, only to see that the light fell to the ground far away from the Japanese airship, Lin Gecheng suddenly understood that the distance was too far now, and it was useless to fire cannonballs.
So Lin Gecheng ordered loudly: "All units, free test firing, free fire, the goal of this battle is to kill all the six devils of the flying king and the eight nests." ”
All the gunners on the Monkey King airship were ready, and from time to time they fired cannonballs for test firing, and in the distance, Yuki Ezawa saw rays of light falling from the Monkey King's airship, and immediately understood that the Monkey King airship was being test-fired, and Yuki Ezawa hurriedly shouted: "Warriors of the Empire, the Chinese pig is firing cannonballs at us, and we throw down all the ballast and quickly rise into the air." ”
The gas contained in the general-class airship is hydrogen, and the speed of lift-off is still very fast, and in less than two minutes, it has risen to an altitude of 1,000 meters.
When the general-class airship rose to 1,000 meters, the test-fired shells of the somersault cloud and the golden hoop stick flew past the top of the airbag of the Kusunoki Masasari, a famous Japanese general during the Warring States period, and the Japanese touted him as the founder of mountain warfare and guerrilla warfare.
Seeing that the cannonballs might hit the airship, the somersaults and the Golden Hoop Stick immediately concentrated their firepower and launched a fierce attack on it, the gunners turned the handle of the Green Quick Gun, adjusted the firing angle, and the rays of light shot towards the Nanmu Zhengcheng, the first few shells flew past the airbags and pods, and the next few finally hit the airbags.
The airbags of the general-class airship are not one, but nine, and the outermost is an airbag, which is wrapped in eight small airbags, which are filled with hydrogen, and in the gap between the airbag and the small airbag, it is filled with air, and there is a pressure regulating valve in the gap, which is used to adjust the ratio of air and hydrogen to control the lifting of the general-class airship.
Since the airbag of the famous general-class airship is such a structure, it will not explode violently when it hits it with a few shells, and it is very difficult to appear that the scene where the entire Japanese airship will turn into a fireball when an aluminum powder incendiary bomb hits it.
The initial high-explosive bomb penetrated the air bag, hydrogen and air began to mix, and the aluminum powder incendiary bomb behind exploded to generate huge heat, directly igniting the mixture of hydrogen and air, but the amount of mixed gas was not much, so only a small explosion occurred.
The flame emitted by the combustion of hydrogen is blue, and a ball of blue light flashes in the airbag, and the blue flame burns the airbag out of a big hole, and more hydrogen gas gushes in, mixed with oxygen and burns, but the volume of the airbag of the famous general-class airship is nearly 10,000 cubic meters, and the flame is not enough to burn the entire airbag, so Nanmu Zhengcheng is still flying according to the original trajectory.
The Japanese soldiers on the Nanmu Zhengcheng also manipulated the Grimm fast cannon to shoot at the two Monkey King airships, but the Nanmu Zhengcheng was nearly a thousand meters below the Monkey King airship, and the shells could not hit the Monkey King airship at all.
The somersault cloud and the golden hoop stick concentrated eight Grimm fast cannons, quickly pouring cannonballs, because the pod is too small compared to the airbag, it is not easy to hit, so the gunners on the two Monkey King airships are aimed at the airbags, the high-explosive bombs tear open the airbags, the aluminum powder incendiary bombs generate high temperatures, detonating the hydrogen and oxygen mixture, continuous explosions come out of the airbags, blue flames flash from time to time, these small explosions finally cause a big explosion!
"Boom" with a loud bang, the whole airbag of Nanmu Zhengcheng exploded into a blue fireball, Nanmu Zhengcheng dragged the blue flame, like a stone to the ground, the moment it fell to the ground, the shell in the pod exploded, causing a gasoline explosion (it is worth mentioning that the gasoline used by the Japanese army was produced in China, and after the United States turned over, the gasoline was sold to Japan), and an orange-yellow flame rose.
Yuki Hayazawa saw that the Kusunoki Masanari had just started the battle and was shot down, he was furious and ordered the other airships to fire freely, and the other five general-class airships had all risen to an altitude of about 1,500 meters, and the shells could barely hit the Monkey King's airship.
Since the general-class airship is underneath the Monkey King's airship, the first place where the general-class airship's cannonballs hit is the Monkey King's airship's pod.
Lin Fei took into account the threat of artillery fire from the ground at the beginning of the design of the Monkey King's airship, so he equipped the pod with a layer of steel armor plates, for this layer of armor plates, Tsiolkovsky argued with Lin Fei a lot, Tsiolkovsky thought that this layer of steel armor plates greatly increased the weight of the airship and should not be installed, but Lin Fei insisted on installing this layer of armor plates in order to increase the survivability of the airship.
If Tsiolkovsky had participated in today's air battle, he would have been deeply impressed by Lin Fei's foresight, and the Japanese artillery shells clanged on the armor plates.
When the general-class airship shot upwards from below, the Seventy-two Variants and the Burning Eyes had already shot down the Honda Tadakatsu, who was also a famous general in the Warring States period of Japan, known as the "No. 1 Fierce General of the Warring States" and "Lu Bu of Japan".
After the Honda Zhongsheng airship fell, there were only four general-class airships left, and these four general-class airships started a melee with the four Monkey King airships.
Airships are different from airplanes, the maneuverability of airships is extremely poor, and it takes a lot of effort to change direction and turn in the air, so Huaxia and Japan have not arranged any battle formations, four Monkey King airships and four general-level airships, basically catch and fight, everyone fights firepower, whoever fights first, who can survive.
Although the general-level airship has strong firepower, it can't penetrate the pod of the Monkey King's airship, and can only move the airbag of the Monkey King's airship, and the airbag of the Monkey King airship is filled with hot air, and it is impossible to explode when hit by a cannonball.
But the general-class airship is miserable, its airbag is filled with explosive hydrogen! The combination of the Monkey King's aluminum powder incendiary bomb and high-explosive bomb is simply a hydrogen detonator, one explosion after another came out of the airbag, and the light blue flames spewed out from the hole in the airbag, and the four general-class airships were like four alcohol lamps that were on fire everywhere.
There is an even worse point about the famous general-class airship, because the designer did not put the survivability of the airship in the first place like Lin Fei, the pod of the general-class airship has no armor plate at all, and the cannonball of the Monkey King airship can be pierced on the pod as soon as it hits.