856 Wyvern Battle Airship
Although all countries in the world have bad intentions towards the Chinese Empire, they do not dare to act rashly, unlike the previous two times, which directly declared war on the Chinese Empire on a large scale, kicking off the prelude to the world war.
This time, the countries of the world are just waiting for the outcome of the war between the Chinese Empire and the United States.
On 6 October, two aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire approached Guam and prepared to launch an attack on Guam, while in Guam, the US garrison of Guam, after learning that the Chinese fleet was about to launch an attack on it, abandoned its plan to bomb the cities of the Chinese Empire and concentrated on defending Guam.
At 11 o'clock in the morning of 6 October, Liu Daming, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Imperial Fleet, sent a telegram to Brigadier General Thomas, commander of the US garrison on Guam, demanding that Brigadier Thomas surrender immediately and surrender Guam.
Commodore Thomas dismissed the warning telegram from the Chinese fleet, because Commodore Thomas felt that Guam's defenses were so strong that the Chinese fleet could not overcome them.
Guam is a military base that the United States has devoted itself to operating, and this base has four battleships, four cruisers, more than 10 small destroyers and torpedo boats of various kinds, and more importantly, this base has four super airships.
This super airship, which the Americans call the "air supremacy", has a carrying capacity of 30 tons, has a huge airbag with a length of more than 210 meters and a diameter of more than 30 meters, and in the pod under the airbag, it is equipped with 30 machine guns.
At present, military experts from all over the world unanimously believe that airships cannot attack warships, because the speed of airships is far from catching up with warships, but airships, which dominate the airship, can not fall behind when facing warships.
The reason why the air supremacy airship does not fall into the wind is not that its maneuverability surpasses that of warships, its maneuverability is as bad as other airships, and its maneuverability cannot even catch up with the most bulky and slow warships, and the reason why it can not fall into the wind is because its firepower is too strong.
The load capacity of the air supremacy airship is very large, so it can carry 30 machine guns, these machine guns are large machine guns with a caliber of up to 30 mm, and the shells equipped with are armor-piercing blasting shells, that is, shells that can explode after shooting through armor.
In the confrontation between the air supremacy airship and the warship, the air supremacy airship can pour a large number of armor-piercing blasting shells on the warship, causing heavy damage to the warship, and the air defense weapons on the warship are difficult to hit the air supremacy airship in the sky.
Since the Guam base was so strong, Commodore Thomas did not want to surrender at all, and he ordered the fleet to go out to find the Chinese fleet and sink it.
Speaking of the four battleships of the United States, the combat strength far exceeds that of the Dynasty class battleships of the Chinese fleet, the industrial strength of the United States is already strong, and there is the stimulation and threat of the rapid development of the Chinese Empire, so the development of warships was accelerated, and soon, the California-class with a displacement of 20,000 tons was launched.
This type of battleship, named after the states of the United States, is the same as the British dreadnought, is a fully armed heavy artillery battleship, the battleship is equipped with 12 306 mm caliber main guns, and the maximum armor thickness at the waterline position is 400 mm, which can be called the "battleship giant".
The United States, having four such battleships, had even more contempt for the Chinese fleet.
The Chinese fleet came from the south side of Guam, and the United States did not know about this situation, they thought that the Chinese fleet would come from the west side of Guam, after all, the west side of Guam was the closest to the Chinese Empire.
In the eyes of the Huaxia fleet, there is nothing terrible about the US fleet, because there is no anti-aircraft artillery in the US fleet, whether it is a battleship or a cruiser, and in front of the Nine Flying Dragon fighters, they are a bunch of moving targets.
The thing that really threatens the Nine Flying Dragon fighters is the air supremacy airship, so this time to attack Guam, the Chinese Empire's way of playing is to destroy all the air supremacy airships first, and then attack the US fleet.
According to the intelligence gathered before the war, Guam did not have a large number of anti-aircraft artillery, so Liu Daming, commander-in-chief of the Huaxia Fleet, ordered the aviation unit to take off two Nine Flying Dragon fighters to reconnoiter the situation of the air supremacy airships.
The air supremacy airship did not take off, it stayed in the base, and the gas filled inside the air supremacy airship was air, not helium, so the airbag was not suspended, but placed on a fixed shelf, and when viewed from the sky, the huge airbag and shelf were very conspicuous.
The Nine Flying Dragon fighters flew to the US military base to reconnoitre, and the US military also discovered the Nine Flying Dragon fighters, and if the Battle of Jeju Island had not occurred between the Chinese Empire and Japan, the US military would not have been alert to the Nine Flying Dragon fighters at this time.
However, after the Battle of Jeju Island, the U.S. military also realized the powerful strength of the Nine Dragons fighter, so when they saw a Chinese Empire plane coming, they immediately ordered the air supremacy airship to take off to meet the battle.
The take-off process of the air supremacy airship is very slow, because it takes a while to open the fixed bracket, and it also takes a while to heat the air in the airbag, and the United States also wants to fill helium like the Chinese Empire's airship, but they don't have helium production technology, and the Chinese Empire sold helium production technology to the British, but the British did not sell it to the Americans.
When the air supremacy airship took off, Lin Gecheng personally led fifty Nine Sky Wyvern fighters to fly to the air supremacy airship base, four air supremacy airships, three have already taken off, and one is troubleshooting because of mechanical failure.
Lin Gecheng saw at a glance the air supremacy airship that failed to take off because of a malfunction, it was like a piece of fat meat in Lin Gecheng's eyes, and Lin Gecheng gave an order: "Attack the air supremacy airship that did not take off, and sink it first...... No, it's shot down. "I got used to fighting the Japanese warships, and I couldn't change my mouth for a while.
Fifty Nine Wyvern fighters swooped down on the air supremacy airship on the ground like wolves and tigers, and the piercing whistling sound frightened the American soldiers into scattering and fleeing in all directions, looking for cover.
Lin Gecheng preemptively pulled the cannon fire button and shot a string of cannonballs, the air bag of the air supremacy airship was two hundred meters long, and the diameter was as high as thirty meters.
A string of shells hit the airbag, tearing the cloth on the outside of the airbag, breaking the steel skeleton inside the airbag, but the airbag is full of air, and it will not explode if it is hit by the shell, so the cannon shell left a string of holes outside the airbag, and the entire air supremacy airship does not seem to have suffered huge damage.
Seeing that the cannon shells could not cause significant damage to the air supremacy airship, Lin Gecheng hurriedly took out the communicator and ordered in a loud voice: "All units pay attention, don't use machine guns to attack the US airship anymore, waste the shells, and the units carrying the bombs will go over and drop bombs on the US airship." ”
Some of the Nine Wyvern fighters behind them carried bombs, they directly threw the bombs over, the bombs fell on the air bags, and the fuse was triggered by the steel skeleton, and then exploded, and the violent explosion directly tore a large piece of cloth, and the high temperature distorted the steel skeleton inside the air supremacy airship, igniting the thick cloth, and the fire suddenly burned.
Some of the bombs fell near the pod, and the explosion distorted the pod, and many machine guns were also damaged, and some shells were also detonated, causing even more damage to the airship of the air supremacy.
When the Nine Flying Dragon fighters besieged the air supremacy airship that could not take off, the other three air supremacy airships in the sky reacted and began to approach the Nine Flying Dragon fighters, and the cannons began to spit out tongues of fire, and the two Nine Flying Dragon fighters were hit, exploded in the air, and the pilot died heroically, which was also the first time that the Nine Flying Dragon fighters were shot down.
Lin Gecheng hurriedly ordered, according to the previous training, immediately climb, fly to the top of the air supremacy, dive fire its airbags, and throw bombs at the air overlord airship will not work, although the air supremacy airship is large, but compared with the entire sky, it is still small, and the bomb is difficult to hit accurately.
The climbing speed of the Nine Flying Dragon fighters was quite fast, and they all flew to the top of the overlord airship in the air in the blink of an eye, which surprised the US airship soldiers for a moment, they could not have imagined that the aircraft of the Chinese Empire were so maneuverable.
The air supremacy airship also knew that there was a fatal death hole above it, so it began to increase its altitude, but the air supremacy airship was a behemoth after all, compared to the speed of lift-off, how could it be compared to the small and light Nine Flying Dragon fighter.
When the air supremacy airship was "panting" up, the Nine Flying Dragon fighters had already begun to dive and shoot, and the Nine Flying Dragon fighters carrying bombs also dropped bombs, and as a result, the bombs fell to the ground.
One after another, the shells were fired into the airbags of the air supremacy airship, and they hit the steel skeleton with a "clanging" sound, and some of the shells passed through the airbags and hit the pod directly, and a layer of steel plate 10 mm thick was laid on the outside of the pod, and the shells failed to penetrate it.
The shell pierced the airbag, and a large amount of heated air gushed out, and when there were few bullet holes, the air supremacy airship did not feel anything, but as soon as there were many bullet holes, the buoyancy of the air supremacy airship began to decrease, and the airship soldiers could only increase the heat of combustion, add the air to a higher temperature, and maintain lift.
The cannonballs still pass through the airbags one by one, and the buoyancy of the air supremacy airship is getting lower and lower, and the airship soldiers at this time are beginning to feel hopeless, because the Nine Wyvern fighters in the sky are shuttling back and forth, and the air supremacy airships can't hit them at all, and the Nine Wyvern fighters are always above the air supremacy airbags, and if you want to hit them, you have to break the airbags first. (Canghai shared the writing story on the WeChat public platform, please find it on WeChat-qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, reply 2 to watch, if you have any comments, you can also leave a message directly on the public platform.) )