Aerial bombs are different from army artillery grenades, artillery grenades have a caliber distinction, and aerial bombs, it is meaningless to distinguish by caliber, so Lin Fei took the concept of a circle diameter from his own era.

The so-called circular diameter is determined by the mass of the aerial bomb, for example, the mass of an aerial bomb is 45 kilograms, then the circular diameter is close to the whole number, 45 kilograms and 50 kilograms are the closest, the circular diameter of the aerial bomb is 50 kilograms, the reason why the concept of circular diameter is used is to facilitate the calculation of the number of bombs, the load capacity of the aircraft is limited, unlike the army artillery, which can reserve artillery shells indefinitely.

The type of aerial bomb that Lin Fei recently equipped with has a circular diameter of 50 kilograms, a bomb weight of 48 kilograms, and a high-energy trinitrotoluene explosive charge of 18 kilograms, and its official name is the HZD-50 aerial bomb, in which "HZD" is the abbreviation of "aerial bomb" and "50" represents the circular diameter of the bomb.

In fact, Lin Fei can make the weight of the aerial bomb larger, but the increase in weight will bring a problem, that is, it is inconvenient to load, 48 kg of bomb, it takes two people to use a bomb gripper to lift it and put it into the magazine, if it is large, it will be difficult to lift it with manpower.

The Monkey King airship has a load capacity of two tons, and when no other modules are used, it can be equipped with 20 aerial bombs, and the explosives delivered by a Monkey King airship can reach 360 kilograms, which is equivalent to ten salvos from an artillery regiment equipped with thirty HP-2 75mm howitzers.

Lin Fei decided to send the Monkey King airship with aerial bombs to the battlefield in Yunnan, and the Qing army was preparing to counterattack Yunnan at this time.

The Qing army dispatched 100,000 troops this time, including the Qing troops in Hunan, Guizhou, and Sichuan (in fact, the total number of troops invested in the counteroffensive by the Qing army was only 200,000, and the Qing court directly said that it was 1 million in order to scare Lin Fei), and the commander was Zhang Zhidong.

On the Chinese side, the troops stationed in Yunnan are the 16th Division, the main force, and the 1600th and 1601st Divisions, which are formed with the 16th Division as the backbone, with a total strength of about 40,000 troops, and the commander is the commander of the 16th Division -- Qi Lei, who has now been promoted to the commander of the 16th Division.

Among the three divisions of the Huaxia Army, the main force of the 16th Division has an artillery regiment, and although the other divisions do not have an artillery regiment, they have artillery companies equipped with HP-1 mortars.

On the other hand, on the Qing army's side, there were only two old mountain guns in artillery, which were basically negligible.

The Qing army entered Yunnan along the Nanpan River, and in ancient times, the march had to follow the great rivers, because in this way there would be water supplies, otherwise, everyone would die of thirst.

The Qing army and the Huaxia army started a confrontation in Zhanyi County, Zhanyi County is the throat road from Guizhou into Yunnan, since ancient times it is a place where soldiers must fight, both sides of this place are high mountains, can not enter, Zhanyi County is stuck in the passage between the two mountains, the Nanpan River flows through the edge of the county, the Qing army controls here, you can go deep into Yunnan along the Nanpan River.

The Huaxia army built a defensive position and waited for the Qing army's attack, Lin Fei formulated a Yunnan combat strategy for Qi Lei, this strategy is like this, first block the Qing army's attack with iron-blooded defense, wait until a large number of Qing troops are killed, and then launch a counteroffensive to occupy Guizhou.

The Qing army had launched several attacks at this time, but they were all repulsed by the Huaxia army, and Zhang Zhidong's new army was also elite, and they had even rushed into the Huaxia army's defense line several times, but they were all beaten out by the Huaxia army.

At this time, Zhang Zhidong was anxious, the whole territory of Guizhou is located on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the transportation is extremely inconvenient, and the Qing army does not have a special logistics force like the Huaxia Army, so the logistics support is extremely difficult, if the battle drags on for too long, the Qing army will be defeated.

Zhang Zhidong summoned his staff to discuss the strategy of attacking, and one of the staff members said: "My lord, if you want to take down the position of the Huaxia Army now, there is no other way than to attack with heavy troops. ”

The heavy attack in the mouth of the staff is the tactic of the sea of people, using people to block the muzzle of the Chinese army, blocking the muzzle of the gun, and the Qing army will naturally be able to lay down the position of the Chinese army.

Zhang Zhidong shook his head sadly, "Although this is a method, but the killing is too heavy, alas, I can't bear it." ”

"My lord, the situation is critical, if the tide is falling and the building is about to fall, my lord must not save the kindness of a woman."

Zhang Zhidong sighed heavily and said: "Okay, it's just that how many soldiers do we need to be able to take down the position of the Huaxia Army, looking at the posture in front of us, we will not kill or injure more than half of the people, it is difficult to take the position." ”

"Don't worry, adults, we can send troops to the surrounding villages to capture the barbarians, those barbarians are all savages who do not obey the king, and it is not a pity to die."

The Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is home to ethnic minorities, and there are many ethnic minority villages, and these ethnic minority people are savages in the eyes of the Qing court.

Zhang Zhidong nodded and agreed, and the Qing soldiers immediately sent a large number of troops to arrest the ethnic minority people, and when they were arrested, the Qing soldiers found that the arrest by force would provoke the resistance of the people, so they changed their strategy, bribed them with money, deceived them with lies, and deceived many people in short.

If Zhang Zhidong gets a large number of people, then this battle will be really difficult for the Huaxia army to fight, after Qi Lei detected Zhang Zhidong's intentions, he immediately sent a message to Lin Fei, asking Lin Fei to send an airship to bombard Zhang Zhidong's military camp before the Qing army's conspiracy succeeded.

Lin Fei readily agreed, and ordered Lin Gecheng to lead four Monkey King airships to bombard the Qing army camp.

Behind Zanyi County is Qujing Mansion, which is a relatively large city, Lin Gecheng led four Monkey King airships stationed in Qujing Mansion, Qujing Mansion did not build an airship library, and the Monkey King airship could only be moored in the open air.

Lin Gecheng received Lin Fei's order to attack, and immediately led his subordinates to install aerial bombs on the Monkey King airship, twenty aerial bombs, which were deployed on the hanging points on the left and right sides of the pod, ten on each side, and were arranged symmetrically in strict accordance with the central axis of the pod.

There are two bombardiers, one on each side of the pod, and when throwing bombs, first aim with a simple sight, and then press the drop button after aiming, release the anchor point, and drop the bomb.

Qujing Mansion is only more than 30 kilometers away from the battlefield, and the bombing of the Monkey King airship this time is much more convenient.

Lin Gecheng gave the take-off order, four Monkey King airships slowly rose into the air, in the process of lift-off, Lin Gecheng's palms were always sweating, for the Monkey King airship, the take-off process is the most dangerous, once there is an accident in the take-off process, the airship must land with a bomb, and it is very likely that the bomb will explode and the boat will die.

The four Monkey King airships slowly rose to an altitude of four hundred meters, and according to the airship operation procedures formulated by Lin Fei, the airship could fly level when it rose to this height, which meant that the liftoff was successful.

Four Monkey King airships slowly flew towards the Qing army camp, Zhang Zhidong's Qing army camp is not as good as Yuan Shikai's, Yuan Shikai's military camp, fortunately, there are camouflage nets, and Zhang Zhidong's military camp does not even have camouflage nets, and the snow-white tents are particularly conspicuous on the green grass.

Soon the Monkey King airship arrived in the sky above the Zhang Zhidong military camp, Lin Gecheng ordered to drop the bomb, the bombardier grabbed the simple sight, began to aim, this simple sight, in fact, is an optical rangefinder, measure the distance from the airship to the bomb drop point, and the bombardier then according to the known bomb falling trajectory, determine the timing of the bomb.

This kind of sight sounds rudimentary, but it is already the best sight that Lin Fei can develop, and better bomb sights and air combat sights are still under difficult development, and it is estimated that Ling Xue and them will be able to speed up the development progress when they return.

The bombardier pressed the bomb dropping button and threw down one aerial bomb after another, HZD-50 This kind of aerial bomb can be said to be the most powerful thing that the Qing army has ever seen, its charge is more than ten kilograms more than 105 mm caliber grenade, and the explosion power is naturally stronger.

One by one, earth-shattering explosions sounded in the Qing army camp, the entire military camp shook, one by one the Qing soldiers were swept away by the air waves, their clothes were torn apart by the shock wave, the fragments generated by the explosion shot the Qing army to pieces, some bombs fell on the mountains on both sides, the explosion burst out a large amount of rubble, smashed on the top of the Qing army's head, and some were smashed on the spot......

Under the fierce bombardment of the four Monkey King airships, the Qing army panicked for a while, and ran outside the barracks with a ghostly scream, and the entire barracks was in chaos.

Zhang Zhidong was shocked and roared angrily: "Didn't the French adviser say that the airship can't blow us up, what's going on now?" ”

The staff hurriedly advised: "My lord, don't care what the French say, let's avoid it, the snitch's airship is powerful, and we may die if we stay." ”

Zhang Zhidong said coldly and angrily: "I am a dignified Qing Dynasty official, how can I be afraid of the snitch, if I don't leave, I just don't leave." ”

The staff were trying to persuade them, but they saw that the four airships actually turned their course and flew away, Zhang Zhidong suddenly laughed, "Who said that the snitch's airship is powerful, in my opinion, but Er'er, come here, gather the troops, and continue to fight with me for the thief." ”

The four Monkey King airships did not escape, but went back to hang up the bombs, and the twenty aerial bombs were thrown away in less than three minutes.

The Monkey King airship quickly completed the bomb hanging and flew over again, this time Lin Gecheng made a trick, not letting the four Monkey King airships fly together, but only letting one fly over, so that when one Monkey King airship dropped the bomb, the other three hung the bomb, this Monkey King airship returned after throwing the bomb, and the next one just finished hanging the bomb and continued to bomb.

In the eyes of the Qing army, it seemed that the airship bombardment in Huaxia would never end, and there would always be airships throwing bombs on their heads.

Zhang Zhidong's Qing army saw the airship for the first time, and he was already scared to the point that his hands and feet were weak, and now he thought that the airship would always throw bombs at them, and he was suddenly terrified, threw down the knife and gun, and ran away, only hating his father and mother for having two legs.

Qi Lei, who was opposite the barracks, heard that the Qing army had broken and fled, and immediately issued an order: "The whole army will attack, defeat the Qing army, and take Guizhou!" ”