618 Yuan Shikai's rocket

The general-class airship has fallen behind in the filling gas and pod structure, and the only thing that can compete with the Monkey King airship is only the powerful firepower, each of which has ten Grimm fast guns on each famous general-class airship, and the missiles fired by these fast guns have made one hole after another in the airbag of the Monkey King's airship, and a large amount of hot air in the airbag escapes, and the airship's floating performance has been sharply reduced.

As the battle progressed, the Monkey King airship began to descend slowly, and the captains could only order the heater power to be increased to maintain the buoyancy of the Monkey King's airship.

Here, the Monkey King's airship floats down, the height begins to decrease, and the famous general-class airship on the opposite side is even worse, the Hattori Hanzo airship exploded in the air under the blow of high-explosive bombs and aluminum powder incendiary bombs, and exploded into a huge fireball in the sky, the fireball rolled with azure flames, which was beautiful, and the parts and shells of the airship flew down like scattered flowers, and the cannonballs fell on the ground and exploded, raising a cloud of black smoke.

Seeing that three airships had been shot down on his side just half an hour after the battle, Yuki Izawa knew that his airship was not the opponent of the Huaxia airship on the other side, so he hurriedly said to the flag soldier: "Send a signal immediately, release smoke, and retreat." ”

There is no bluebird machine on the general-level airship, and if you want to communicate, you can only use the flag, the flag soldier waved the flag and played the flag, and the remaining three general-level airships immediately released smoke, slowly turned around, and flew away from the direction of the Monkey King's airship.

Lin Gecheng saw the Japanese airship fleeing, and originally wanted to order a pursuit, but considering that his four Monkey King airships also had a lot of damage, such as his own Golden Hoop Stick, in order to maintain buoyancy, the heater power has been increased to the maximum, and the gasoline consumption is extremely large, if you continue to pursue the Japanese airship and fight with it, the Golden Hoop Stick is likely to run out of fuel halfway, and once the hot air airship runs out of fuel, it can only fall to the ground.

So Lin Gecheng issued an order, all four Monkey King airships retreated, and in this way, the first airship Armageddon in human history officially ended, and the Monkey King Airship of the Chinese Empire won a complete victory, shooting down three famous general-class airships - Kusunoki Masari, Honda Tadakatsu, and Hattori Hanzo, these three airships, each of which had a crew of 60 people, all of whom died, some were directly killed by the hydrogen explosion, and some fell from a high altitude and fell to their deaths.

Although there are 60 crew members on the famous general-class airship, but these crew members do not account for much weight, the Japanese are originally small people, the average height of men in this era is only 160 centimeters, so the weight is not large at all, plus when Yuki Hayawa selects soldiers, only those who weigh lightly, these crew members, each is only 40 kilograms.

The famous general-level airship lost three, and the Monkey King airship did not lose a single one, but the Monkey King airship was not without damage, all four airships were seriously injured, and these injuries were mainly distributed on the airbags, as for the loss of personnel, because Lin Fei added steel armor plates to the pod of the Monkey King's airship, plus the pod was much smaller than the airbag, and it was not a hit, so the personnel were not injured or killed.

This battle has had a far-reaching impact on the development of the world's military airships, and the biggest impact is that hydrogen is not suitable for use in airships, and the general-class airship is much larger than the Monkey King's airship, and its firepower is much stronger, but it was beaten by the Monkey King's airship by three to zero, and the reason is that the general-class airship uses hydrogen as a filler gas.

Britain, Germany and the United States are developing airships, all use hydrogen as filler gas, with the lessons of this battle, the three countries have stopped their airship development projects, began to use hot air as filler gas, so that Lin Fei in the field of airship research, has been ahead of the world's countries.

However, Lin Fei didn't stick to the airship, because Lin Fei knew very well that the airship was destined to be eliminated by the war, and the thing that could really dominate the blue sky was the airplane, so Lin Fei accelerated the pace of aircraft development.

Lin Gecheng led four Monkey King airships to return, the four Monkey King airships were seriously injured, Lin Gecheng was worried that they would not be able to hold on, so he summoned naval support, Lin Fei had already sent two Emperor-class cruisers to support the Monkey King's airship, if the Monkey King airship was injured and could not fly, then they could land on the sea, and the Emperor-class cruiser would pick people up, as for the Monkey King's airship, it would be towed if it could be towed back, and it would be blown up on the sea if it could not be towed.

Although the four Monkey King airships were seriously injured, they still barely flew back to the Hainan base, and after a period of maintenance, they could be put back into use, but the three general-class airships that escaped were not so lucky, and after the three general-class airships landed, after a preliminary inspection, they found that the injuries were too serious to be repaired, and Yuki Haize could only blow them up in pain.

Since then, all the six general-class airships sent to the Qing Dynasty have been destroyed, and the Japanese side has realized the huge hidden danger of the general-class airships, so it has stopped the construction of the ten airships under construction, saved resources, and began to develop brand-new airships.

Urizawa Yuki suffered such a major defeat, and originally wanted to commit suicide by disembowelment and apologize to His Majesty the Emperor, but was stopped by the Japanese high-level officials, who asked Uizawa Yuki to be brave after being ashamed, and in the next decisive battle with Huaxia, completely annihilate the Huaxia airship troops.

Lin Fei also learned the lessons of the battle, that is, the Monkey King airship did not have special aerial bombs, which led to low bombing accuracy and a large amount of artillery shells, so Lin Fei began to order his subordinates to design special aerial bombs.

The design of the aerial bomb, the most difficult place is the aerodynamic shape, the aerial bomb falls from the sky, only under the conditions of the right aerodynamic shape, the bomb can fall accurately, the design of the aerodynamic shape, to rely on the principle of aerodynamics and the principle of fluid mechanics, Lin Fei's subordinates understand these people have a lot of people, Tsiolkovsky is a typical representative.

The general-level airship was defeated, and Yuan Shikai was also greatly shaken, he hurriedly found the French consultant Fenerbahce, and asked eagerly: "Mr. Fenerbahce, the Japanese airship is not the opponent of Lin Airship, what should we do now?" ”

Fenerbahce didn't hesitate, "You should immediately attack Guangxi according to the original plan now." ”

Yuan Shikai was shocked, "We're going to attack Guangxi now, aren't we going to use the Huaxia airship as a target?" ”

"No, no, Mr. Yuan Shikai, Huaxia's airship base is far away from the battlefield, as long as you move, they can't blow you up, as long as you quickly attack Guangxi, Huaxia airship can't help you."

Yuan Shikai nodded with satisfaction, "Very good, then we will attack Guangxi, and our rockets will also be attacked." ”

Yuan Shikai then led the Qing army to attack Guangxi, and according to the Qing army's predetermined march route, Yuan Shikai would lead the Qing army north along the Guijiang River to Guilin.

Yuan Shikai wanted to go north along the river to take Guilin, the first thing to be laid is Wuzhou, Wuzhou is the east gate of Guangxi, whoever controls here, who can control the Guijiang River, this was originally the jurisdiction of the Qing State, and later Lin Fei sent a rapid reaction force to take Guilin, and then occupied Wuzhou, as for the Wuzhou Prefecture Governor and other Qing officials, they were already frightened and fled with their tails.

Yuan Shikai came to Wuzhou Mansion, opened the formation, and prepared to attack the position of the Huaxia defenders, because Lin Fei had been informed of the Qing army's march route in advance, and had already prepared for Yuan Shikai's imminent attack on Wuzhou, and ordered Zhang Jiancheng to lead the rapid reaction force to garrison here, and they were stationed with the 1500th Division, which was the reserve division of the 15th Division of the main force.

There are only more than 10,000 defenders in China, and Yuan Shikai's troops on the opposite side are full of 100,000, although there are many Qing soldiers, but most of them have extremely poor combat effectiveness, and more importantly, because the Monkey King airship attacked the Qing army camp three times before, causing great casualties to the Qing army, causing the Qing army to be cowardly before fighting, and many Qing soldiers are thinking about surrendering before the battle.

Yuan Shikai knew that he had an advantage in strength, so he ordered the troops to attack first, and the commanders at all levels gave an order, and tens of thousands of Qing troops rushed to the Huaxia Army position.

On the position of the Huaxia Army, Zhang Jiancheng had already been ready to deal with the intensive charge of the Qing army, he concentrated the HP-2 75 mm howitzer behind the position, as long as the Qing army launched an attack, the howitzer behind him would fire, the rate of fire of the HP-2 howitzer could be as high as a dozen pieces per minute, this was an extremely terrifying rain of bullets, the Qing army could not stop it at all.

The Qing army's charge had just been launched for a few minutes, and a large number of dead bodies were left in front of the position, and the living Qing army turned around and ran, Zhang Jiancheng decisively ordered: "Launch a counter-charge." The soldiers of the Huaxia Army immediately rushed out of the trenches and pursued the Qing army, and the Qing army simply did not run, and directly raised their hands to surrender, just like that, just twenty minutes after the battle began, more than 1,000 Qing troops surrendered, which caught Zhang Jiancheng off guard.

The first wave of attacks of the Qing army was frustrated, Yuan Shikai hurriedly ordered the Qing army to retreat, and the Qing army retreated a full ten kilometers before standing up and camping.

Yuan Shikai paced back and forth in the handsome tent, his face was solemn, and the time was not big, and a soldier ran in and reported: "My lord, Craftsman Zhang is here." ”

Only then did a smile appear on Yuan Shikai's face, "Hurry up and let him in." ”

After a while, a cowering craftsman walked in, and Yuan Shikai laughed and said, "Craftsman Zhang, don't be afraid, it's time to take out the rockets I asked you to make." ”

Craftsman Zhang smiled and nodded, "Little one understands, I don't know how the adults want us to use this rocket?" ”

"This is easy, tomorrow I will personally lead the elite troops to attack the position of the snitch, you take the rocket car, follow my left and right, I let you launch it, you will launch."