The German airships were dispatched, and more than eighty large airships, escorted by more than two hundred fighters, took off from Metz and flew towards Verdun in the sky, and now it is not necessary to guess what the Germans were going to drop at Verdun, and if they reached their destination, then the French army would taste the hellfire for the first time.

Knowing this, more than 300 of the latest Falmont fighters from the five airfields near Verdun were all taken into the air to face their formidable enemy, all of which were equipped with armor plates on the propellers that deflected bullets, which had always been the guarantee of French domination of the skies on the Western Front.

"Germans!" Only ten minutes later, a series of exclamations were heard from the French aircraft group that was gradually comparing, and countless giant airships in the distant sky were approaching with a majestic momentum like a battleship sailing on the sea. The French commander, Colonel René, immediately gave the order to meet the battle, and more than 300 fighters fiercely slaughtered these invaders who had invaded their homeland. But it was then that the hateful French pilots discovered that their enemy had changed planes, and that the Germans were now using a new type of biplane that they had never seen before.

But this was only a surprise to them, since the Falman fighter had not tasted defeat in the skies, and in the eyes of these proud pilots, air combat against the Germans was as easy as training to shoot targets.

At the same time, the Germans in the distance also saw the French group, the latest Otto fighter in the middle of the giant airships, rapidly accelerating forward, and began to climb high into the air under the surprised eyes of the French pilots, it was obvious that they wanted to seize the most advantageous position in the air combat.

Of course, the French could not have watched them run over their heads, and under the command of Colonel René, all the Falmans fighters also began to climb, but soon the French pilots broke out in a cold sweat, because the new German planes were climbing much faster than them.

The German fighters, who had gained the upper hand, then pounced on the French like a flock of diving vultures. At the same time as the dive, the nose of the plane suddenly shot out a series of incoherent red fire, almost instantly, more than twenty Falment fighters under them diagonally were shot at the same time and burst into flames, at this time the small plane was extremely fragile, and in the blink of an eye, it began to fall to the ground one after another.

Colonel René was almost stunned by this stick, and he immediately realized that such planes also possessed the ability to shoot from propellers, and that these planes were faster and had a higher rate of climb, and that it was impossible to expect this air battle to be as easy as before. The only way is to get entangled and fight a chaotic battle of individual skills with numerical superiority.

"Quick, quick, fire and entangle them!" He made a hoarse gesture to his pilots and shouted, fortunately, although the German aircraft had an advantage in performance, it was not an overwhelming advantage that was out of reach, and nearly 300 Falman fighters quickly dispersed, like a group of scattered dragonflies looking for their opponents, and the Bofors air-cooled machine guns licensed by the Habggers Company in the nose opened fire one after another.

But it soon became clear to the French that it was difficult for them to lock on to their targets. These latest German aircraft had too many advantages over their counterparts, and it could be said that they were superior in almost all respects, faster than the Falman, and better maneuverable than the Falman. It is extremely difficult to entangle them in aerial combat, and the opponent can shake off the Falman style that entangles them in a very short time, and then easily climb to the air, and with a dashing flip and volley down again to blow the Falman.

Even the machine guns equipped with them had a much longer firing range than the Falmans. And it's hugely powerful, and it's clear that it's not an improvement of the army's heavy machine guns, but the same large-caliber machine guns used in those airships. This terror weapon, which is only made in China, can ravage French planes even from a kilometer away, and the machine gun is also heinously equipped with tracer bullets to show ballistics, making the Germans shoot more accurately.

Their over-propeller design was also very different from the Falman, and there was no bullet bounce that injured the plane, and within minutes of the battle, the French lost dozens of fighters, and the sky saw French planes falling in smoke, while the downed German planes still did not exceed double digits.

Although those French pilots were still stubbornly fighting the enemy in the skies driven by hatred, it was a pity that their bravery could not make up for the huge gap in the performance of the weapons in their hands, and no matter how hard they tried, they could not change the situation of being passively beaten, and soon the original numerical advantage was gone.

Even at this moment, those huge airships began to surround them, although they were not fighter jets, but these airships had terrifying defensive capabilities, like fortresses in the air, a large-caliber machine gun with a range of nearly two kilometers, like the machine guns on the plane, fired tracer bullets, and kept strafing outside the range of the machine guns of the French fighters.

The 12.7 mm machine gun bullets were so powerful that the Falmans, still dominated by canvas, wood and plywood, could cause fatal injuries and even break their wings with a single shot, no matter where they hit.

The French pilots tried desperately to rush forward to kill the enemy, but under the fire of the German fighters and the machine guns on the airships, none of them succeeded, and one pilot watched the invaders in the distance in despair, and drank the blue sky in the light of the explosion of the plane.

This air battle of unprecedented scale lasted less than half an hour, and ended in a crushing defeat for the French, and less than 100 of the 300 Falmans that came to meet them finally returned, and their gain was only to shoot down 22 German fighters, and as for the main target of their trip, the giant airships were not damaged.

With endless grief and indignation, the remnants of the French planes fled the battlefield, with fifty German planes following closely behind, while the rest escorted the air fleet to Verdun.

These eighty airships were loaded with a full 400 tons of coagulation shells, and their mission was to smash all these terrible hellfire on the fortress of Verdun, and the German General Staff was still skeptical about the use of this weapon to attack the fortress, but Hindenburg, who had the most experience in using this thing, dispelled their doubts with a test.

Hindenburg locked a dozen goats in a reinforced concrete underground bunker, and then threw a dozen coagulated qiyou bombs at the bunker, and when the flames burned out, all the goats in the bunker died, suffocating without any scars on their bodies.

The fortress of Verdun is indeed impregnable, almost all the defenders are in the ground protected by reinforced concrete or even armored steel plates, and there is only one muzzle and muzzle outside, and the solid shell and even the 420 giant cannon can't be smashed, but hundreds of tons of solidified qiyou shells are dropped on this fortress that is only a few hundred meters square, and the violent burning will drain all the air inside, without air, can the defenders inside still live?

The results of this experiment convinced William and Count Schlieffen that the airships that had been intended to be used to bomb the French trenches around Verdun were to switch the first bombing target to the fortress of Verdun.

However, it was not easy for the Germans to achieve this goal, and even if they had airships, the French did not only have airplanes to protect their skies, but also a large number of the latest anti-aircraft guns in the fortress of Verdun.

Because of the fear of accidentally injuring their own airship, the German artillery bombardment stopped after the arrival of the air fleet, and a door was originally shrunk in the ground one after another, this kind of Haqikes company 75 anti-aircraft guns shot more than five kilometers high, has a mortal threat to the airship in the sky, after discovering that the German air fleet arrived, the French anti-aircraft artillery below immediately opened fire.

Shells with time-delay fuses kept exploding over Verdun, and the smoke of the explosion formed black clouds, and shrapnel flew everywhere in the firelight, turning the sky into a murderous place, at this time the escort fighters immediately played a role, and small planes first pounced from the sky, using their large-caliber machine guns to frantically strafe around the French anti-aircraft guns, and under the cover of the planes, the two airships ventured to rush up.

Their targets were too small for eighty airships to bomb at the same time, and a few of the remaining airships scattered to attack the French forces around Verdun to prevent them from attacking the airships in the sky with ground fire, and the rest had to wait in the sky.

As soon as they saw the German airship flying overhead, the French troops on the Verdun fortress were even more desperate to withstand the strafing of the plane, aiming at the sky with the 75 anti-aircraft guns in their hands and firing, and soon they reaped the first result, the first airship to fly to Verdun was almost hit by a 75 PAO bomb, and the airship filled with hydrogen exploded in the air like a ZHA bomb, and the French troops on the ground gave excited cheers to this spectacular scene above their heads regardless of the danger of the plane's strafing, but then their cheers stopped abruptlyAt the same time as the airship exploded, the countless black dots in the pod below fell almost simultaneously.

The Germans designed a special pod for this, all the coagulation qiyou are neatly arranged with their heads, and when the time comes, you only need to loosen the mechanism that is stuck in the bomb body, and the five tons of coagulated qiyou bombs can be smashed almost at the same time, just like the carpet bombing of later bombers, this design now plays a role, just at the same time as the hydrogen air bag explodes overhead, in the disintegrated pod, all the coagulated qiyou bombs are smashed down at the same time.

Although they were not aimed, but fortunately, the Verdun fortress itself was also a huge target below them, and the five tons of coagulated qiyou shells instantly smashed on the northeast corner, which was a hundred fifty-kilogram coagulated qiyou shells, as if a volcanic eruption, almost a third of the fortress was completely engulfed by flames and completely disappeared from sight. (To be continued......)