The sky of this era can be said to be completely undefended, especially in this unprepared late night, after the bombing began, the whole London was in chaos, even the generals who were awakened did not know what to do, one by one looking at the airships raging overhead, helpless, until some policemen blindly raised their pistols to shoot into the sky, the British generals did not remember what they should do.

There were a large number of recruits on the outskirts of London who were ready to be sent to France, and these soldiers armed with light and heavy machine guns were immediately given the order to be transferred to the city and shoot at the airship in the sky, but unfortunately this order was given too late, Colonel Hall bombed this time, and the task was to throw the bombs into the city of London, each airship was nothing more than less than a hundred bombs, and they were stored in the front and rear two pods, since there was no need to bomb a certain target, then it would only take a few minutes to throw them all.

By the time the British soldiers had run into the city from outside, twenty airships had finished their bombardment and were beginning to rise, and beneath them, large swaths of the city of London were burning in the flames caused by the bombing, and they had dropped not only bombs, but also some incendiary bombs.

The angry British soldiers, can only raise the light machine gun in their hands, helplessly dump bullets at the airship in the sky higher and higher, of course, this is certainly useless, in fact, although the hydrogen airship is not safe, but it is definitely not really a lighter in the air, ordinary bullets want to hit it is almost impossible, at most it is just a few small holes drilled in the skin, unless the use of white phosphorus coated special incendiary bullets, but at this time the British will not have this kind of thing.

Just as these airships retreated. A group of British planes stationed nearby also received an order to take off and intercept, a dozen small planes of wood and canvas. They had to take off on such nights by moonlight, but they could only watch in vain as the demons wreaking havoc in their homeland. After dropping all the bombs, these airships could not only fly to an altitude of 5,000 meters that they could not reach, but even reach a speed of 1670 kilometers that they could not reach.

At this time, the speed of the aircraft was generally a little more than 100 kilometers, which was not at the same level as the airships equipped with high-power gasoline engines made in China.

The bombing of London by the Germans quickly caused an uproar throughout the world. Twenty airships dropped a full 80 tons of bombs and incendiary bombs on the world's largest metropolis and the most prosperous commercial center, causing more than 500 civilian casualties on the ground, although this number is not much compared to the hundreds of thousands of casualties on the battlefield, but this is London, the capital of the British, the rear of the battle line, which means that the Channel will no longer be able to provide protection for the British people. The flames of war have spread to the British mainland.

While the British angrily accused Germany of brutal attacks on civilians, they could not help but develop a deep fear of this terrible weapon, not to mention the fact that the Germans could bomb London, and they could also bomb other British cities. For a time, the whole of Britain was full of rumors, and they were afraid to sleep at night.

The day after the bombing, the British went crazy looking for ways to protect their skies. A large number of light and heavy machine guns were hastily modified to allow them to aim at the sky for firing. Even some small-caliber cannons were modified to increase their elevation angle to the point where they could fire shells into the sky. Of course, this is better than nothing. Just like those light and heavy machine guns, the main force of air defense, there is no threat to airships of more than 1,000 meters at all, as for those small-caliber cannons, even the British themselves feel that if these weapons with a single-digit rate of fire per minute can hit the airships in the sky, then their luck is too rebellious.

The task of developing special anti-aircraft artillery was quickly sent to the major British arms companies, but it will take a little time, and it is estimated that it will not take half a year, and it will be difficult to see the anti-aircraft artillery defending the skies of London.

The Germans, of course, would not wait for them, the use of airships was extremely demanding on the weather, and taking advantage of the same good weather the next day, Colonel Hall flew to London again with his air fleet.

He didn't know that the British had prepared a gift for him, and this guy was about to order the airship to descend in height, when he saw a dozen fires shining on the streets of London under the moonlight, and he and the soldiers beside him looked at each other inexplicably, and before he could understand what was going on, he saw more than a dozen fires suddenly explode on the ground.

"Bastard, who told you to put on the fuse!" He didn't know that at this moment, a British officer on the ground was yelling at the bewildered soldiers around a 75 cannon pointed at the sky, these army artillerymen did not adapt to their new role, and as a result, as usual, all the shells were loaded with bump fuses, and the shells fired into the sky did not hit the airship, but blew up the houses on the ground when they fell.

Of course, this is just a small mistake, but this mistake has made Colonel Hall in the sky vigilant, it is obvious that the ground in London tonight is no longer without any resistance, this guy carefully ordered the airship to begin to descend in altitude, until it was about a thousand meters, countless light and heavy machine guns on the ground opened fire suddenly, the whole London was full of sporadic fire, and the dense bullets were intertwined into a terrifying fire net under the airship, and it still could not pose a threat to the airship in the air, But they had to stay at an altitude of a thousand meters, and at the same time, the cannons that were pointing at the sky also fired shells into the sky from time to time.

"Drop the bomb, drop the bomb immediately!" Colonel Hall immediately decided, as the accuracy of bombing at such a height would be very poor, but fortunately, the city of London below, this target was large enough, after receiving his order, the crew of those airships quickly pushed out one bomb after another, and the bombs that fell quickly exploded on the ground one after another, especially those white phosphorus incendiary bombs, which quickly formed a raging flame after landing.

"The planes of the British!" At this time, a soldier shouted, and by the moonlight, he could see that the dozen or so small planes of the previous night had flown slowly again.

"Quickly drop all the bombs and rise to a safe height." Colonel Hall immediately ordered, twenty airships quickly pushed all the bombs out, and then the auxiliary airbag began to release the air that controlled the lifting and lowering, as the air decreased, the volume of hydrogen squeezed in the original main airbag began to increase, the corresponding buoyancy began to increase, the airship began to rise again, and at the same time, the engine accelerated, and the speed of the airship that was originally flying slowly for bombing gradually accelerated.

However, compared with the airplane, these huge air monsters, the reaction speed is obviously much worse, plus the British plane came a little faster this time, before the airship rose to a safe height, the first batch of planes had arrived, and the large-caliber machine guns equipped in each airship immediately spewed flames, the 12.7 mm machine gun purchased from China has a much farther range than the machine gun on the British plane, and it is also equipped with tracer bullets that mark the trajectory, and soon the wings of an airplane ready to pounce were broken and fell to the ground.

However, this did not affect the courage of the British pilots, who saw their homeland turn into a sea of fire, bravely cut to the sides of the airships, and braved the fire of the enemy, and the backseat shooters quickly fired revenge bullets.

Well, this way of fighting is really weird, but for the classical small aircraft, which have not yet solved the problem of machine gun over-propeller fire, this is the only way they can fight.

However, the air battle between the planes and the airships did not last long, because of the speed difference between the two sides, the British planes could only keep up with the airships in the initial stages when they began to accelerate, and when the airships had increased their speed and rose into the air, they could not do anything. But during this time, many planes still hit their targets, after all, their targets were too big, but these attacks did not cause real damage to any of the airships, but the large-caliber machine guns on the airships, with the advantage of tracer bullets indicating the trajectory, shot down two more British planes, and finally the air battle ended in a crushing defeat for the planes, and those pilots once again watched their enemies fly away.

What they didn't know, of course, was that they should actually say that they destroyed an airship, and just as it was flying over the strait, an airship that had been hit too many bullets, due to the drop in buoyancy combined with the high winds, finally crashed into the sea.

Fortunately, the bad luck of the British did not last long, and by the third day, the weather was no longer suitable for the airship to be dispatched, and Colonel Hall actually let his air fleet take off that night, but soon the strong wind forced him to return to the ground, and the huge airship could not be controlled in the wind, and he could not even fly forward, and such weather would certainly not be able to bomb.

The British, who were able to take a breath, began to study the means of retaliation, of course, they were not capable of playing bombers, in fact, at this time the French also engaged in aircraft bombing, a reconnaissance pilot out of indignation against the Germans, with a dozen mortar shells into the sky, and then threw all these shells towards the German positions, inspired by him, the French are currently developing the first special bomber, it is said that it will be almost successful in a few months, of course, regardless of the bomb load or flight speed, It's not comparable to an airship.

So the only retaliatory method that the British could think of was to build their own airships and fly to Germany to drop bombs. (To be continued......)