With the efforts of Russian prisoners of war and soldiers of the Huaxia Army, in one day, three defensive positions were built around Hailan Pao, just waiting for the Russian army to come.

During this period of time, the hot air balloons of the Huaxia Army also rose into the air to help the war, monitoring the movements of the Russian army, the outer northeast is an endless plain, there are few factories in this era, and the air is very pure, especially suitable for hot air balloon reconnaissance.

The commander of the hot air balloon unit is Liu Jingkong, who, like Lin Gecheng, especially wants to fly the latest aircraft of the Huaxia Army to fight, but Lin Fei resolutely disagrees with the matter of dispatching the plane, and Liu Jingkong and Lin Gecheng have no choice.

This time, the Japanese planes are about to rush to the battlefield, and I don't know if Lin Fei will still be stubborn and not send out the plane.

For the hot air balloon troops, there is only one target that needs to be discovered the most, the artillery positions of the Russian army, this time the Russian army is fighting an offensive war, and the Huaxia army is fighting a defensive war.

On 13 August, the Russian army appeared at a distance of about 3,000 meters from the Huaxia Army and began to build offensive fortifications, which exceeded the accurate range of the Huaxia Army's artillery, and it was difficult for the Huaxia Army to use artillery to inflict effective casualties on it.

The Huaxia Army released four hot air balloons, and none of these hot air balloons found the artillery positions of the Russian army, so Niu Dalong decided that the Russian army did not plan to put artillery into this battle, as for the reason, Niu Dalong believed that the Russian army thought that the artillery was too cumbersome and inconvenient to move.

On the night of 13 August, a dense rain of bullets suddenly fell on the Huaxia Army's position, and explosions came one after another, and the soldiers of the Huaxia Army hurriedly entered the trenches to take refuge, but despite this, more than 400 people were still killed or injured in the explosion.

The Russian army took advantage of the situation to launch an attack, the position was occupied, the Huaxia army hurriedly organized troops, fought for that position, the two sides immediately launched a fierce battle, the battle lasted all night, the Russian army was finally repulsed, the Huaxia army recaptured the position, counted the results and battle damage, the Huaxia army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and the Russian army only left more than 300 corpses.

The main reason why the casualties of the Huaxia Army far exceeded that of the Russian army was that in hand-to-hand combat in the position, the Huaxia Army was naturally not the opponent of the Russian army, and the Russian army's stature and strength were superior to the Huaxia Army, and the troops that launched the sneak attack last night should be the elite troops of the Russian army, with a tenacious will to fight and excellent military quality.

In fact, the failure of the whole battle should be blamed on the fact that the hot air balloon unit did not discover the Russian artillery position in time, and if the Huaxia Army had not been disrupted by the Russian army's artillery raid, the Russian army would not have been able to kill it at all.

Niu Dalong was furious and called Liu Jingkong to reprimand him, Liu Jingkong was also very aggrieved, the Russian army must have deployed artillery at night, and the hot air balloon was blind at night.

Niu Dalong then ordered Liu Jingkong to immediately take off the hot air balloon to find the Russian artillery position, and at the same time ordered Lin Gecheng to take off the Monkey King airship to find and destroy the Russian artillery position.

The Russian army is equipped with anti-aircraft guns, so there is a certain danger for the Monkey King airship to fly into the Russian position, so Niu Dalong ordered the first armored division to launch a harassing attack on the Russian army, forcing its anti-aircraft guns to be unable to deploy and be used normally.

A group of 60 predatory artillery chariots of an armored regiment rushed to the Russian position, and the Russian position immediately met it with anti-tank artillery, and the predatory artillery chariot followed suit, and the anti-chariot artillery was still no match for the predatory artillery chariot, and retreated after a little resistance.

At this time, the Russian army launched an offensive formation, and it was difficult to block the invading artillery chariots, and when they saw the invading artillery chariots attacking, they all retreated, so that as soon as they retreated, the anti-aircraft artillery positions had to move, and the Russian anti-aircraft guns could not fire in motion, so the Monkey King airship entered the Russian positions unimpeded and looked for artillery positions.

Although the Russian artillery positions were camouflaged, the camouflage technology of the Russian army was not very clever, and it was easily recognized by the Monkey King airship in the sky, Lin Gecheng was pleasantly surprised, and then ordered the Monkey King airship to prepare to drop bombs.

After Lin Gecheng gave the order to drop the bomb, he immediately issued an order to the Hailan Bubble Airship Base, asking the Airship Base to continue to send the Monkey King Airship to fight.

It turned out that Lin Gecheng only dispatched four Monkey King airships this time, and such a small number was obviously not enough to blow up the Russian artillery position.

Just when the bombardier on the Monkey King airship was aiming with a bomb scope, Lin Gecheng suddenly saw that a large black spot appeared in the sky to the south, and Lin Gecheng was the first to react, those black spots were Russian airships, but he had never heard that the Russian army was equipped with airships.

Lin Gecheng also had another doubt, that is, the flight speed of those black dots far exceeded the speed of the airship, Lin Gecheng raised the telescope and looked at those black dots, the scene in the telescope surprised him, it turned out that those black dots turned out to be airplanes.

These planes all have a propeller in the nose, the wings are all double-layered, and there is no paint on the fuselage, and it is too far away to see if weapons are installed on the fuselage.

Lin Gecheng was taken aback, how could there be an airplane in the sky, and isn't the airplane unique to our Huaxia Army?

Lin Gecheng heard Lin Fei say that the plane is the nemesis of the airship, because the maneuverability of the plane is strong, far more than the airship, the plane can easily turn, but the airship can't, so Lin Gecheng has a fear of the plane from the bottom of his heart.

Lin Gecheng immediately picked up the microphone of the blue bird machine and said loudly: "Attention of all units, there is an airship nemesis in the sky, and now all units, return immediately, the combat module is ready to fight, and never let the airship nemesis approach." ”

The plane was strictly kept secret in the Huaxia Army, except for the future air force officers such as Lin Gecheng and Liu Jingkong, no one else knew about the plane, even Niu Dalong didn't know about the plane, and the crew of the Monkey King airship didn't know about it.

The crew members beside Lin Gecheng said one after another: "Commander, what can be our nemesis, we are the Monkey King!" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, give me a return flight immediately." After Lin Gecheng finished speaking, he personally walked to the machine gun firing position and commanded the battle, and the others didn't dare to say anything.

Soon, ten planes appeared in the sky in the distance, closer to the Monkey King's airship, Lin Gecheng saw its appearance more clearly, the nose propeller, double-layer wings, there are more than a dozen vertical bars between the wings, the effect is to increase the strength of the wings, there are three landing gears under the belly, and on the fuselage behind the propellers, there is a high raised glass cover, which should be the cockpit.

Above the left and right lower wings, there is a jet-black tube, it should be the barrel of a machine gun, the caliber and the like are not clear, behind the barrel of the machine gun is a big lump of black and swarthy things, it should be a bullet box, Lin Gecheng moved in his heart, His Majesty said, if a foreign country makes a plane, it will definitely be used for reconnaissance first, and then it will be used for combat, I didn't expect that now the enemy's plane will be equipped with weapons, and my order to retreat is really right.

Ringo estimated that the planes had entered the range of the Grimm's guns, and gave the order to fire loudly, and the gunners immediately fired a rain of bullets with the Grimm's guns, and the shells drew a strange arc in the air and fell far away from those planes.

When those planes saw the Monkey King airship retreating backwards, they did not continue to pursue, but turned around in the sky and retreated behind the Russian position.

These planes flew out of the sight of the Monkey King's airship, and the ground in front of them was a solid flat land, although there was no cement asphalt or anything like that, but it was pressed by heavy objects, and it was very flat.

Ten planes lowered their altitude and landed on flat ground, the planes of this era were very light, the fuselage and wings of these planes were made of wood, only the key parts were made of steel, and the speed was very slow, so it was easy to take off and land, and when the Wright brothers tested the plane, they even took off and landed on a potholed farmland.

As soon as the ten planes stopped, someone went over and set up a ladder on the side of the cockpit, a small yellow man climbed out of it, and a big-nosed Caucasian walked over and asked, "Hiroki Izawa, have you fought with the Monkey King's airship?" It turned out that this pilot was the commander of the Japanese airship unit back then, Yuki Hayawa.

Yuki Haysawa shook his head, "No, Mr. Wright, there are machine guns on the Monkey King airship, and it is still retreating at high speed, we didn't dare to fight, but there were no mistakes during the flight." ”

Wright let out a long sigh, "It's good that nothing goes wrong, and as for the combat performance, it's not too late to test it later." ”

Lin Gecheng returned to Hailan Pao and landed, Niu Dalong was very angry, because the Monkey King airship did not throw bombs at all, and the artillery positions of the Russian army had not been destroyed.

Niu Dalong questioned Lin Gecheng: "Why don't you throw bombs?" ”

"Because the enemy army has dispatched the airship buster, we dare not engage them."

"Airship Buster, what's that?"

Lin Gecheng thought for a moment and said, "It's a flying thing, and its mobility is much stronger than that of the Monkey King's airship. ”

Niu Dalong frowned, "The enemy used a brand new weapon?" We will report to Your Majesty immediately! ”

"Don't worry, Commander, I will personally report this matter to Your Majesty." After Lin Gecheng finished speaking, he went back to send a telegram to Lin Fei, in which he described in detail the appearance of the enemy's plane, and at the end of the telegram, Lin Gecheng wrote excitedly: "Your Majesty, the enemy has dispatched planes, should our planes also be dispatched, I request that we go to battle immediately!" ”

Lin Fei was shocked by this telegram, it was 1902, the enemy actually used an airplane, or a combat plane carrying two machine guns, Lin Fei was a little hesitant, should he take out his own plane? (Canghai shared the writing story on the WeChat public platform, please search on WeChat - qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, reply 2 to watch)