In the Ussuri Bay outside the port of Vladivostok, on the bridge of the all-steel battleship Astrakhan, the flagship of the Russian Second Pacific Fleet, the fleet commander, Admiral Rozhdestwinsky, saw the Northeast Navy of about 20,000 meters, and said with some excitement to Vice Admiral Avdey, the captain of the Astrakhan beside him: "Great! The Northeast Navy has faced it! The day when we will destroy the main forces of the Northeast Navy is today! ”

Rozhdestwinsky knew that such a large fleet of France and Russia would definitely be known to Lin Daxin after coming to Asia, and he was originally worried that Lin Daxin's Northeast Navy, seeing that the Franco-Russian combined fleet was so powerful, would choose to avoid a fight, evacuate the periphery of the port of Vladivostok, return to the base of the Northeast Navy, and learn the methods of the Russian Navy's First Pacific Fleet to preserve its strength.

If it is like that, although the siege of the port of Vladivostok is lifted, it will not be so easy for the navies of France and Russia to completely eliminate the Northeast Navy, and the navies of France and Russia will also face the combination of the Northeast Navy fleet and the coastal defense artillery of the naval base.

Avdjey looked at the formation of the two fleets of the Northeast Navy, and said to Commander Rozhdestevinsky: "Commander, if we follow the current formation, our Pacific Second Fleet will face half of the warships facing the Northeast Navy alone, you see, the Northeast Navy has 7 all-steel battleships in our direction, should we let the French Navy support it!" ”

Rozhdestwinsky waved his hand and said: "We have 10 all-steel battleships and 6 ironclad battleships, are we still afraid of the 7 all-steel battleships of the Northeast Navy?" You must know that this war belongs to us, Russia. The French are only here to help us, and the crucial battle is still up to us, sue the Russian naval warriors. The time has come for allegiance to the Russian Empire! The whole fleet ......"

Before Rozhdestvinsky could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by the exclamation of one of the lieutenant colonels of the Russian Navy in the bridge, "Oh God! What is that flying in the sky? ”

Rozhdestwinsky and Avdjey were standing next to the observation window of the bridge, and the two of them subconsciously looked out, and then the two of them showed a look of horror on their faces at the same time, and five behemoths in the sky were flying towards them and the French fleet at a rapid pace.

"Commander, that's an airship, right? What are they going to do? Vice Admiral Avdhy, the captain of the Astrakhan, shouted.

Rozhdestvinsky recognized at a glance that it was an airship flying over. He had studied airships a few years earlier, and he even fantasized about using them to load bombs. Throw it on the enemy's warship, but because the speed of the airship is too slow and the load is too small, this idea can only become his fantasy, and he did not expect to see such a huge airship today. And the speed of the airship is also very fast, and it is flying in the direction of its own fleet at a fast speed, could it be that his fantasy is realized on his head today?

Rozhdestwinsky's face changed drastically, and he immediately shouted: "Quick! Order the small-caliber rapid-fire guns on all warships to adjust to the maximum elevation angle and intercept the airships flying towards us! ”

Rozhdestwinsky paused for a moment and then shouted: "Inform the French that the airship is likely to be carrying bombs, and let the French also use small-caliber rapid-fire guns to intercept the flying airship!" ”

In fact, there was no need to be reminded by Rozhdestvinsky, the commander of the French expeditionary fleet, François, who also guessed the behemoths that were rapidly approaching his own fleet. It is likely that the bombs were being delivered to blow up his own warship, and François had ordered all the small-caliber rapid-fire guns on the warship with a relatively large elevation angle to turn up the angle to intercept the flying airship.

5 airships flew to the combined fleet of the French Navy and the Russian Navy. Hercules, Helios, Mercury, Venus, and Mars, did not use maximum speed, but simply flew at a speed of 70 kilometers per hour.

However, the speed of 70 kilometers per hour was also very fast, and soon it crossed the heads of the First and Second Fleets of the Northeast Navy and flew towards the combined fleet of the French Navy and the Russian Navy, when the distance between the two fleets was about 12,000 meters. The airship was already close to the target to be bombed.

At this time, the small-caliber rapid-fire guns on all the warships of the combined fleet of the French Navy and the Russian Navy turned up the angle and began to fire at the approaching airships. But these small-caliber rapid-fire guns are not specially designed for air defense after all, the airship is far away, the range of the small-caliber rapid-fire gun is not enough, the airship is too close, and the angle of the small-caliber rapid-fire gun is not enough, so these small-caliber rapid-fire guns can only pose some threat to the airship at a short distance from the airship close to the warship, and these threats to the airship are almost negligible.

The five airships did not care about the shells of the small-caliber rapid-fire guns on the warships of the French Navy and the Russian Navy below, and the super airship Hercules, the large airship Mercury and the large airship Venus pounced on the French naval expeditionary fleet.

The Helios supership and the Mars airship swooped down on Russia's Second Pacific Fleet.

In this sortie of the Northeast Air Force, most of the superships were loaded with 800 kg bombs, and a small number of 300 kg bombs were configured, while the large airships were loaded with 300 kg and 100 kg bombs, which also considered the load of the two airships and the allocation of targets to deal with.

The captain on the Hercules super airship is called Zhang Guoxin, a few days ago Zhao Hu planned a mutiny, and Liu Xiumei sent someone to buy him, but Zhao Hu and Liu Xiumei didn't know that Zhang Guoxin was already a secret officer of the Secret Bureau, and he was loyal to Lin Daxin.

Zhang Guoxin has been promoted to the rank of colonel because of his contribution to the Zhao Hu incident, but because of the special nature of the Guards Division, it has not been expanded, and other Dingbei Army units have not been expanded from the Guards Division.

This time, Lin Daxin transferred officers from the Guards Division to serve as the captain of 8 airships, and Zhang Guoxin was transferred to serve as the captain of the Hercules, and he was also temporarily appointed as the commander of 8 airships.

Zhang Guoxin knew that the bombing of the combined fleet of the French Navy and the Russian Navy was an opportunity for himself, and if he could grasp it, he would be able to sit firmly as the commander of this newly emerged branch of the armed forces, and he would have become a high-level military official.

In the past few days, Zhang Guoxin has led the newly formed Northeast Air Force to simulate and drill many bombing exercises, which has increased the bombing speed of the airship a lot.

The Hercules, Helios, Mercury, Venus, and Mars bombed the combined fleet of the French Navy and the Russian Navy, and the Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus bombed the Russian ships in the port of Vladivostok.

When the Hercules super airship approached the French fleet at an altitude of 2,000 meters in the air, Zhang Guoxin felt a shock under his feet in the gondola compartment, it should be that the shell of the small-caliber rapid-fire gun on the French * ship hit the 90 mm alloy armor outside the gondola compartment, fortunately, this shell has a small caliber and did not penetrate the 90 mm alloy armor, and Zhang Guoxin saw 1 shell of the small-caliber rapid-fire gun on the French * ship from the observation window on the side of the gondola compartment, Hit the 65 mm alloy armor on the large Venus airship, which also did not penetrate.

Although these small-caliber rapid-fire guns on the warships of the French Navy kept firing, only a handful of shells they fired could hit the airship.

Even the shells that hit did not blow up the alloy armor on the outside of the airship gondola compartment, and the shells of 1 57 mm small-caliber rapid-fire gun finally hit the airbag of the Hercules, but it was bounced open by the high-strength fiber airbag skin before exploding, without destroying the airbag.

In addition, there is a shell of 1 57 mm small-caliber rapid-fire gun, which was lucky to fly nearly 5000 meters, because of the angle problem of small-caliber rapid-fire guns, if you want to hit an airship at an altitude of 2000 meters, you must fly a distance of 5000 meters to reach the airship at the highest elevation angle, which has made the range of many small-caliber rapid-fire guns out of reach. The shell of the small-caliber rapid-fire gun, which flew to the limit, magically hit the Venus airship's airbag before exploding, blowing up one hole in the airbag and allowing some of the helium in the airbag to escape, but it did not affect the Venus to continue to approach the French expeditionary fleet.

These airships purchased by modern time and space, there are multiple compartments in the airbags, and the huge airbags are divided into hundreds of small airbags, and the Venus airbag is blown out of a hole, which only releases a few hundredths of helium in the entire airbag, which does not have much impact on the Venus airship at all.

Soon Zhang Guoxin passed through the observation window set up at the bottom of the gondola compartment and found that his Hercules airship had flown to the top of an all-steel battleship, and at this time, the four bomb ports in the gondola compartment had been prepared to drop four giant bombs of 800 kg, Zhang Guoxin shouted loudly: "No. 1 and No. 2 bomb ports are ready, put -"

With Zhang Guoxin's order, the two soldiers on the side of the No. 1 and No. 2 bomb ports pushed the lever vigorously and opened the two bomb ports.

"Whoosh-whoosh-" Two 800-kilogram giant bombs smashed through the open bomb port towards a French Navy all-steel battleship 2,000 meters down.

With a "boom-" sound, an 800-kilogram giant bomb hit the 13,500-ton Cecilia-class all-steel battleship Michelia, and another 800-kilogram giant bomb was dropped into the sea more than 30 meters away from the Michelia. (To be continued) R466