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"Your Majesty, now the Air Force has a total of 20 'Kunpeng'-class heavy airships and 40 second-class medium airships. The Kunpeng-class heavy airship can carry four 500-kilogram aerial bombs, and the medium-sized airship can carry two 500-kilogram aerial bombs or four 250-kilogram aerial bombs. According to our calculations, the destruction of the strong batteries and large fortresses of the Russian army in Vladivostok requires the use of 500-kilogram aerial bombs to drop bombs in the air at a distance of one kilometer. The rest of the small bastions, with aerial bombs of the 250 kg class, will do! Lieutenant General Long Feiyu, commander of the Air Force, replied, and a trace of excitement flashed in his eyes. Originally, I thought that the weak air force would not have a chance to go to the battlefield in this war, but I didn't expect that the Russians' defense in Vladivostok was too strong, which gave the air force a chance. Although the main efforts of the Air Force are now focused on the development of aircraft and the training of pilots, the research and development and manufacture of airships have not been relaxed. Before the development of high-performance aircraft, airships were still the most important combat force of the Air Force. Air Force Commander Long Feiyu was only a major general in the previous rank, and was promoted to lieutenant general after the war began. If the Air Force can show itself in this war, maybe he will be able to get promoted after the war, and in this way, the Air Force will not be weaker than the army and navy.

"So, how many aerial bombs are there? Is it enough to destroy the Russian army's defenses in Vladivostok? How many airships in the Air Force can be thrown into war at once? Wang Yuze asked. Twenty heavy airships plus forty medium-sized airships are already a lot of combat power, if used well. In the midst of war. will play a great role. Other than that. Wang Yuze also thought that if the airships of the Chinese Air Force were prominent in the war, they would inevitably cause other countries to follow suit. Divert the attention of other countries to airships, then, the Chinese Air Force can again take a big step ahead of the aircraft. There is only so much national strength for each country, and the emphasis on the development of one branch of the armed forces will inevitably affect the other branches of the armed forces. When all countries are focused on airships. After increasing investment in this area, waiting for the Chinese Air Force's aircraft to be put into use will make all the airships that these countries have worked so hard to build at great expense become air turkeys. It's a two-pronged plan.

"Your Majesty, there are already quite a few aerial bombs in stock. A total of 500 aerial bombs of the 500 kg class were in reserve, and 250 kg of aerial bombs were in reserve, and a total of 2,000 were in reserve. The arsenal can produce 500 class aerial bombs and a thousand 250-kilogram aerial bombs per month if it is fully produced. In addition, there are a number of aerial bombs of the 00 kg and 50 kg classes! As for the airship units of the Air Force. Since the beginning of the war, it has been in a state of combat readiness. Ready to fight! Lieutenant General Long Feiyu said.

"Very good, then you go back and prepare, and leave tomorrow morning, I will ask the Jilin side to build an airship berthing in Yanji, and the aerial bombs will also be transported there by guò train." When the time comes, the airship unit will take off directly from Yanji and bomb the Russian fortifications in Vladivostok! Wang Yuze said.

"Yes, Your Majesty! The Air Force is guaranteed to complete the mission! Lieutenant General Long Feiyu said excitedly. After waiting for so long, it is finally the turn of the Air Force to go to the battlefield, this opportunity is not easy to come by. Lieutenant General Long Feiyu secretly swore that he must seize this opportunity and prove in front of the whole army that it is absolutely not useless for the Air Force to spend so much military spending!

The next morning, the Air Force's airship unit took off from the Nanyuan Air Base and flew to Yanji City, Jilin Province, where a train specially designed to transport aerial bombs, fuel, and support personnel departed last night. After receiving the telegram, Xiong Wu, chief of the general staff who commanded the battle in Jilin, immediately asked the Yanji city to find an open area to be simply leveled and used as a mooring place for the airship. Fortunately, although Yanji City is a mountainous area, it is much easier to communicate with the outside world after the train. After receiving the order, the Yanji City Government immediately mobilized tens of thousands of people and spent one night to build a more than 10-square-kilometer airship berthing site on the outskirts of Yanji City.

Now the speed of the airship is only 0 kilometers per hour, and it took two days to fly from Beijing to Yanji. During this period, both the Second Army and the naval detachment stopped attacking Vladivostok. This greatly exhilarated Alekseev, the governor of the Russian Far East, who thought that the squadron was poor in donkey skills and had no way to take Vladivostok. This made him feel more at ease, convinced that Vladivostok was still indestructible.

On the afternoon of April 2, tens of thousands of people gathered on a leveled land on the outskirts of Yanji City, including the head of the Yanji municipal government. On the evening of the month, the Yanji Municipal Government was deeply shocked after receiving a telegram directly from the base camp. Mayor Guo Ruwei immediately summoned several deputy mayors, organized tens of thousands of people overnight, and spent a whole day finally leveling out a piece of land.

On April day, the train entered the city of Yanji, and thousands of soldiers arrived in Yanji, where they built a number of simple warehouses and watchtowers on the leveled land. At the same time, a large amount of fuel, aerial bombs and logistical support equipment have all arrived here.

"Mayor, is the airship coming today? What the hell is an airship? An older deputy mayor asked. He was born in the Manchu Dynasty, but he was relatively upright, and after the establishment of the empire, he also actively cooperated with the work of the empire, so he was appointed deputy mayor.

"I haven't seen it either. However, I have heard of it. Airships, like ships. It's just that the ship runs in the water, and the airship flies in the air! Mayor Guo Ruwei said.

"Flying in the air? Is it like a bird? Can people really fly into the sky? The deputy mayor's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.

"The airship was developed by Westerners decades ago. It's just that the empire is now catching up. Calculate the time, it should be almost there! Mayor Guo Ruwei said.

It didn't take long for small black dots to appear on the edge of the skyline, and slowly, these small black dots became bigger and bigger, and when they flew over Yanji City, they became behemoths. Ordinary people, where have they ever seen such a thing! One by one, I thought it was a god descending to earth! If it weren't for the presence of troops, I'm afraid they would have run away long ago.

The deputy mayor of Yanji City also had a ghostly expression on his face, and his mouth was chattering, "Zi is silent, strange and confused!" Something like that, obviously, was also deeply shocked.

The 'Kunpeng-class' heavy airship, with an airbag on it that is 00 meters long and 22 meters wide, twice the size of a battleship, obscured the sun when it appeared in the sky, casting a black shadow on the ground. The medium-sized airship is also two hundred meters long, and these dozens of airships are dispatched together, covering the sky and the sun, which is very shocking. Under the guidance of the ground forces, the airship quickly landed. After flying for more than a day, the pilot of the airship above was already very tired. After landing, it was all time to rest, and the ground crew began to inspect the airship and load aerial bombs in preparation for tomorrow's bombing operation. The time is very tight now, and after the airship troops arrive, they have to be dispatched the next day. The distance from Yanji to Vladivostok is about 200 kilometers, and the airship has to fly for seven hours, and it can only bomb Vladivostok once a day. Therefore, time must be rushed. After the airship arrived in Yanji, it was temporarily put under military control. On the one hand, to protect the airship, and on the other hand, to keep it secret.

At 5 o'clock in the morning on April Day, just after dawn, all the airship pilots got up. The airships were already ready, and they will take off at half past five to launch the first kilogram on Vladivostok. The Second Army, which was in Vladivostok, had also already made preparations and was waiting for the arrival of the airship. Dedicated guides and signs are also ready.

In the western part of Vladivostok, where the Second Army was stationed, on the open plain, several huge arrowheads of up to 100 meters long were paved with white lime. The direction pointed by the arrow was Vladivostok. At the same time, the communications corps of the Second Army has also made contact with the airship unit and will guide the airship force to launch the first round of attacks on the Russian positions in the Sikhote Mountains.

"Company commander, what is this? Go up like an arrow. Could it be that an arrow drawn with this lime could break through the Russian defenses? A young man asked suspiciously.

"How do I know that it always makes sense for the chief to ask us to do this. That's it! Lao Maozi's fortifications are so strong, if you use resignation to pile them up, how many brothers will have to die! It would be great if they could destroy their fortifications! When the time comes, we will be able to let those old hairy people taste our awesomeness! The company commander said. Although their company did not participate in the battle three days ago, they were still very angry at the tragic scene when it came time to attack.

"Lao Zhang, when will the airship force arrive?" Major General Xie Dingkun asked. The airship unit has become the last hope of the Second Army.

"Just got in touch with them, and we'll be here in two hours!" Major General Zhang Shusen, Chief of Staff, replied.

"Lao Zhang, is this airship really useful? Why do I feel a little unreliable! Xie Dingkun said with some concern.

"Now you can only use dead horses as live horse doctors. We have no other way but to hope that the airship force will be able to do it. However, since His Majesty attaches so much importance to the construction of the Air Force and invests so much military spending every year, maybe the airship unit can really surprise us! Major General Zhang Shusen said with a smile.

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