"God, it's an airship. These are all airships......" Vice Admiral Phillips, commander of the British Far East Fleet, looked at the sky in surprise.

60 huge airships, they all shaded the morning sun, and one by one huge airships floated in the sky, like flying fortresses hanging above everyone's heads. They cast a huge shadow on the ground, and so much of it is in people's hearts. The whole of Singapore seems to be panicking.

"Yes, Mr. Lieutenant General. These gadgets are airships, fragile and fragile airships. Do you need to worry about their threat? Mr. Lieutenant General? "William of the East India Fleet. Admiral Summerville stared at Phillips with stern gaze and taste. This is Phillips's superior, and the commander of the entire combined fleet.

"You should trust our warships, and trust that the warships of steel will not be harmed by these fragile gadgets."

"What can they do? In addition to monitoring our movements. Oh yes, this is a step forward in military history. Not only can we use hot air balloons to observe and calibrate cannons, but we can also use airships to do this job even better. ”

Summerville was annoyed by Phillips' fuss. He sensed Phillips' panic, and he didn't understand where this was coming from. Is China going to attack Singapore? Don't have the slightest bit of fear. The sailors of the combined fleet have all gotten up, the sirens are sounding, and all the sailors are rushing to their posts. So, what's so scary?

What if the war starts? As long as there are huge steel warships and an invincible British Royal Navy, Singapore will always be the shield of the British Empire. It's a fortress that will never fall. He really couldn't think of anything terrible!

There are no British airships in Singapore. Li Xin commanded the airship troops and began to descend. Now they have a height of 800 meters and can descend another 300 to 500 meters. The stability of helium can be relied upon. As long as it is not an anti-aircraft gun, even a large-caliber Makqin heavy machine gun cannot ignite an airship. Of course, a bullet from a heavy machine gun can hit through the basket.

"Descent to 500 meters!" Li Xin gave the order, subconsciously looked at his watch again, and it was 5:40 in the morning that the world's first air raid operation broke out.

"Start, attack!" Li Xin's 02-01 airship raised a small blood-red flag.

"Da Da Da, Da ......" First of all, a heavy machine gun rained down a chain of death from the sky. Whipped like the whip of death on the surface of the water and the surface of warships.

Admiral Summerville's face became very surprised, it turned out to be a heavy machine gun. "It's a genius idea."

"Hurry up and order the troops, set up heavy machine guns on high places, and shoot at the sky." Summerville quickly conveyed the order. The airship landed slowly, and a heavy machine gun rained down on them, and it didn't take long for them to be baptized by the bullets. But this did not affect the courage of the egrets and wild geese to attack in the slightest. It was still the No. 02-01 airship, Li Xin's car took the lead in opening the lower mouth of the hanging blue, and a bomb with a pilot and signal tube installed fell from the lower mouth, and the bomb weighing 300 kilograms drew a small curved arc in the air. Falling on the surface of the sea near an armored cruiser, the strong impact immediately detonated the sensitive fuse, and the bomb exploded with a bang, stirring up a column of water tens of meters high. The battle scene was immediately hot.

The faces of Summerville and Phillips instantly became extremely embarrassed. Especially Samorville, who was so confident a moment ago, is now extremely frightened. The power of the bomb can definitely traumatize the battleship. Even Samorville felt that it was a thick-skinned battleship that was hit by a bomb of such power in a row. It's also going to be a big bad thing. And what does this mean?

These fragile and fragile gadgets of airships can really pose a deadly threat to the steel behemoths that roam the seas from high overhead.

"Quick! Fast! Get all the warships moving. Let them sail out to sea! ”

Summerville is not a lonely person, he knows the problem of airships, as long as the warship sails on the vast ocean, as long as the warship can move, the threat of the airship to the battleship will be much reduced.

Speed, change of direction, the defects of the airship are irreparable!

After dropping the bomb, Li Xin did not immediately withdraw from the attack route, but immediately adjusted the sight again, and then really threw five 200-kilogram and 300-kilogram bombshells like laying eggs.

Two of these bombs were dropped precisely on the deck of that armored cruiser. There was a bang, red-hot shrapnel swept across the deck, all the sailors on the ship were killed, the glass of the conning tower was completely shattered, and the armor of the frontal windows became slightly distorted.

A large hole four or five meters in diameter was blown open in the center of the bow, and the iron sheet was rolled outward, revealing the damaged turret shaft and ammunition supply system inside. Although the other three bombs of my colleague did not hit the target, the waves set off after their explosion also made the Spanish armored cruiser of more than 6,000 tons rattle with a keel rattle.

The red, yellow and red Spanish flag was burned to ashes by the blast storm, which also caused a fire on the battleship, and a thick cloud of black smoke shot into the sky.

The captain of the warship was glad that he was not in the command tower, and on the other hand, he yelled anxiously, wishing that the steam system would be fully charged immediately. But this is not possible. So it has to continue to accept the bomb overhead.

"Lower another hundred meters!" Li Xin looked very excited. The second time he 'laid eggs', he had two hits, and Li Xin had already ignited the desire and hope to compete for the honor of the first sinking. For the airship army, which has only been established for two years and is facing a frontal battlefield for the first time, such an honor is enough for Li Xin to record the history of the military.

The bombardier adjusted his sights a little, and with a whoosh, three 300-kilogram bombs fell from the lower mouth of the No. 02-01 airship for the third time. A huge flame rose from the aft deck of the Spanish armored cruiser, followed by a continuous explosion - was the ammunition compartment detonated?

Li Xin held his breath, and forgot to order the airship to rise quickly, and now the airbag of the No. 02-01 airship has been pierced with more than ten small holes. Helium is leaking slowly.

The entire aft deck of the armored cruiser had turned into a sea of fire, and the two secondary guns placed in the stern were blown away and fell into the sea. The explosion of the bomb detonated a number of shells piled up on the aft deck, causing an explosion that caused far more damage to the ship than the three hundred kilograms of bombs that fell from the sky.

A fire broke out on the aft deck. The sea water poured into the stern part of the ship, and Li Xin's entire airship members watched the tail of the armored cruiser slowly sink into the sea with their naked eyes, and finally the entire warship was warped.

Li Xin looked at his watch again, the time was 5:52, 12 minutes after the battle began, the No. 02-01 airship created the first result of this air raid. Li Xin has made a beautiful start. And half of the bombs of the entire airship have not been used.

Half an hour later, a green flag was raised on an airship, and the captain took out a flare gun and fired a red flare into the sky, which was a signal that the airship had run out of bombs and the attack was over. Five minutes later, seven more airships ended the battle. They quickly rose to a higher position, gathered together at an altitude of 1,000 meters in the sky, and then slightly reversed course, led by an airship flying a blue signal flag, and flew in the direction of the western land.

In total, the airstrike lasted an hour. But in military history, a century-making page has been opened!

Of the 14 capital ships of the Anglo-Spanish-Dutch combined fleet, three were hung up in this air raid, one armored cruiser, two second-class ironclads, and two large tonnage dome cruisers and two protective cruisers, a total of seven warships were sunk. Because the sixty airships were all staring at the big guys, those frigates, destroyers, small cruisers, etc., were not looked at by the airship army at all.

Two battleships and two 10,000-ton ironclad ships were hit by a total of 153 bombshells, the largest of which was the 1st class battleship Revenge, which was hit by a total of 70 bombs, including 500 kilograms of heavy bombs.

The main gun was damaged, the tail rudder was damaged, the power was damaged, and it was completed as a dead fish on the surface of the sea.

This first-class battleship, which had just been launched the year before last, was the second battleship of the famous British Sovereign-class battleships, and was originally discharged into the Channel Fleet as soon as it got out of the water, but because of the intensification of Sino-British contradictions, it was dropped into the East India Fleet last year. This time, he came to the Far East as Samerville's flagship, preparing to show off his military might, but unexpectedly, before the port of Singapore was released, he completely lost his combat capability.

The Combined Fleet suffered heavy losses this time. But they didn't lose their main combat power to the air raids, and if it weren't for the underwater demons lurking in the harbor, Samoville would have had enough time to order the ships that were already fully charged to sail out of the harbor.

It is precisely because of the presence of as many as 17 underwater submarines that the number of sunken and seriously damaged warships of the Combined Fleet has not only increased by 40 percent, but even the exit channel of Singapore Port has been directly blocked by the sunken warships.

"Shoot there, there!" Forbes commanded loudly and shouted angrily. He could see clearly that the torpedoes that had concentrated the Austinger warships had been fired in that water.

"Boom, boom, boom......" a series of shells fell on that water.

"Throw out debris and garbage, quickly, quickly-" In the submarine under the water, He Ershui felt the violent vibration of the submarine, and gave orders loudly.

The water depth of Singapore Harbor was only thirteen meters, and it was only bombarded by light cruisers, and there was no problem in a short time, but if it attracted a large-tonnage dome cruiser or an armored cruiser and was bombarded by heavy artillery of more than 200mm caliber, then all the submarine officers and men of the 505th would be ready to die for their country. (To be continued......)