Huang Yan's No. 03 plane climbed from an altitude of 2,000 meters to 2,500 meters in eight minutes, which was already the maximum ceiling of the "Huofeng" reconnaissance plane.

According to domestic intelligence, the LZ-7 zeppelin developed by Germany two years ago had already reached the ceiling of 3,500 meters, and could climb 250 meters per minute after throwing away the ballast, while the climb rate of the best competitive aircraft at that time was less than 80 meters per minute.

The Italian army began to introduce the LZ-7 airship in 1906 and gradually imitated it, and the prey in front of Huang Yan obviously had the performance of the German-made LZ-7 airship.

A forcible attack will not work, and with the maneuverability of the "Huofeng" reconnaissance plane, as soon as the enemy airship throws off its ballast and climbs urgently, Huang Yan and his men can only stare dryly.

Now Huang Yan's No. 03 is located above the Italian airship numbered "002", with an altitude difference of about 300 meters and an oblique distance of less than 600 meters.

"Dalaisi, prepare to drop the bomb."

"Sir, I don't have that training." Faced with such a huge floating monster, Dalaisi was a little stunned.

"If I tell you to vote, you will vote."

Dalaisi picked up the two 60 shells and shouted "I'm ready" into the tube, leaning half of his body out of the open cockpit, as he used to do when he dropped the bombs.

As soon as Huang Yan pressed the lever, the wings of No. 03 "Fire Wind" trembled, and he immediately swooped down, and the wooden skeleton and canvas skin trembled violently.

Dalaisi's feet were so weak that he almost didn't fall out.

The gray skin of the airship filled the entire field of vision at once, and you could even see the black stitches on the skin!

"Bomb dropping!" Huang Yan screamed like crazy, but at this time, Dalaisi, who leaned out of the cabin, obviously couldn't hear it, and the bomb was not dropped at the most suitable time as Huang Yan expected.

After pulling up the nose of the fuselage with difficulty, Huang Yan turned his head to look at the back seat, Dalaisi's hands were empty, and there were exactly two bombs missing from the bomb racks on both sides of the fuselage.

Turning the nose of the plane slightly, Huang Yan saw that the Italian airship was continuing its seemingly comfortable voyage unharmed, without climbing quickly or firing - Huang Yan did not believe that the airship would not be willing to load even a machine gun.

Huang Yan turned the plane back sharply and circled the back of the airship again.

"They didn't notice us, boy, let's do it again!"

"Sir, this is too difficult, I'm afraid I can't do it!" Dalaisi gasped sharply.

"You can do it! Nothing in the sky is impossible! Grab the bomb for me! ”

Another sharp breath.

"Sir, I'm ready."

"Okay, we're going to do it again!"

Huang Yan turned off the throttle this time, and slowly approached from the back and top of the airship smoothly and slowly, when suddenly a strong gust of wind pressed from behind the plane, and the plane seemed to be pounced on by someone with a fan, lost control, and quickly crashed into the floating battleship that was full of oppression and almost breathless......

Huang Yan felt that he had almost broken the control stick, and the right wing of the plane rubbed diagonally against the left side of the airship, and the wing shook violently, enough to give the impression that it was about to break and shatter hopelessly.

"Sergeant!" Huang Yan looked behind him again, and Da Lai Xi was gone.

"Sergeant!"

Huang Yan tensed up, and when he looked closely, a hand wrapped in leather gloves was clinging to the side of the cockpit, and the next time he turned around, the number of hands increased to two, and Dalaisi's head in goggles and fur hat was also exposed, and he grabbed the ring-shaped machine gun mount, and if he was strong enough—good, he did it, and he returned to the cockpit.

"Dalaisi?"

"Sir, I'm here." Dalaisi said stupidly, naturally with a look of shock.

"You really should come with me to my country, your luck is enough to make you a general."

Dalaisi did not respond to the superior's kindness, but asked blankly, "Sir, what are we going to do?" ”

Huang Yan glanced at his prey, the other party was climbing at a surprising speed, the battle failed, and the first battle between an airplane and an airship in the world ended with the inglorious "escape" of the airship.

It took a lot of effort to blow up the flares to summon the wingman back.

Huang Yan gestured to the wingmen flying side by side on the left and right: "Is there any result?" ”

The wingman pilot pointed only to the sky, shrugged his shoulders, and shook his head.

"To deal with that kind of monster, you have to send the most advanced planes, this kind of old goods from the war against Russia five years ago can't do it." Huang Yan said indignantly, shook his wings lightly, and prepared to lead the fleet back.

"Five o'clock, unknown shadow!"

Dalaisi suddenly shouted in the sound tube, Huang Yan glanced back, and sure enough, he saw several black shadows that were increasingly showing the shape of the plane clearly swooping towards the tail of his own fleet, so he subconsciously kicked the rudder and pulled the lever, the plane turned slowly, and the wingman couldn't help but turn around.

As soon as he turned his head, the three planes of the other side had already rushed towards him, and they didn't have time to react, and almost flew through each other's formation.

"Sir, it seems to be your own person, and the model is exactly the same as ours!" Dalaisi was a little confused.

Huang Yan turned around and looked, and the spittle star flew sideways and roared: "Bullshit, look carefully, the position of the opponent's wing is further back than ours, turn around and hit with a machine gun!" ”

The three "Fire Wind" landed and chased after them at full speed, and at this time, the opponent's fleet also skillfully turned in formation and rushed head-on again.

Huang Yan deliberately deflected an angle from the oncoming opponent's fleet in order to exert the power of the rear-seat machine gun, but soon found that the other party was also deflecting to the side in the same way, and the two sides were about to pass by in parallel at a certain distance - obviously the other party also had some kind of shooting weapon in the back seat.

"Holy shit, it's really ...... with a fart"

There was no point in complaining and cursing, and soon, at a distance of each other's noses and eyes, the two sides were passing each other at an airspeed of more than one hundred and fifty kilometers per hour, and Dalesi pulled the trigger and in less than half a minute he had exhausted the entire drum of bullets - don't expect him to aim at anything.

"Sir, the enemy's plane really looks too much like ours, except for the wings, everything else is exactly the same."

"Say something useful." Huang Yan was about to turn again, he had realized that this should be the first battle between armed planes in the world, and he and his enemies were making history.

"I found out that the weapon of the opposing observer was a pistol." Dalaisi whistled triumphantly.

"Okay, let's see what we can do with them." Huang Yan licked his lips excitedly - the excitement of the lion before predation.

An hour later, an Italian plane with blood and brains splattered in the rear cockpit descended in three directions on the left and right of the three Ethiopian planes and landed at Deghepur Airport, the so-called airport, which is just a slightly leveled barren meadow.

“…… As a result of the first airplane engagement on the Italian side, an aircraft, a pistol and a lieutenant pilot were captured, and a second lieutenant observer was killed; The Ethiopian side spent 293 rounds of ammunition, and the left wing of the No. 03 long plane was punched with a bullet hole the size of a fingernail, but the pilot of the plane claimed that this was indeed caused by his own fingernail poking in......"

"Interestingly, the captured Italian Hereta aircraft is a copy of the Egyptian army's Chinese-made 'Huofeng' aircraft, and the one used as the benchmark for imitation." The Firewind aircraft came from the Far Eastern Theater in 1903-1904, when the Russian army found and captured several Chinese planes and their pilots on their positions, some of which the Russians left behind and tempted the captured pilots to teach them flying skills, while others were transferred at high prices to several 'scientific and technological powers' who were still in a blank space in terms of heavier-than-air aircraft......

—The New York Times

October 13, Daredawa.

More than 20,000 officers and men of the main force of the Ethiopian Praetorian Guard, dressed in tasseled gowns and high military hats decorated with white feathers, were preparing to be inspected by the "King of Kings" they revered.

Completely organized in the Chinese style and guided and trained by a Chinese advisory group, this Janissary Army has equipment and quality no less than the most elite army in Europe, and it is the essence of Ethiopia's armed forces.

Although the entire Praetorian Guard has only 24,000 people, it accounts for one-sixth of the strength of the regular army in the country, but it is equipped with two-thirds of the country's machine guns, forty percent of the artillery, and nearly half of the small mortars.

At this time, all the cannons, mortars, and even machine guns were neatly placed in front of the neat infantry phalanx, and as hundreds of Praetorian Cavalry in three columns, armed with sabers and dressed in bright red dresses, passed by in the dust, the richly decorated mounts under the Emperor's majesty appeared in front of the soldiers.

The military band played, the soldiers chanted slogans, and the 24 largest Chinese-made 105-mm field guns fired a salute in unison, and the atmosphere was exciting enough, but this could not move the nervous members of the Chinese advisory group.

"Italy and Germany have both announced that they will increase their troops in Ethiopia, and recently they have invested in aviation units that cannot be underestimated, and Britain and France are also constantly building up troops in their respective territories, and the situation is getting worse and worse."

Wen Yu looked at the Ethiopian flag fluttering in the wind, thought about it, and sighed: "Although it can only be an extravagant hope, I still hope that the motherland can send charcoal in the snow, and I have worked hard for several years, and it is a pity to see everything come to naught......"

Li Ruishi hugged his arms and sneered: "Chips are chips, and they can be sacrificed at any time." Perhaps all this has been arranged from the beginning, the short-term prosperity and the final destruction, every step is in the calculation of the big guys, and as for us, we are also part of the bargaining chips. ”

"Ruishi, it's too presumptuous." Wen Yu frowned.

"Commander, let's face it." Deputy head Yintian stood on the opposite side of Wen Yu this time, in fact, he understood the same as Li Ruishi that Wen Yu was just habitually maintaining the illusory imperial heavenly might.

"You ...... Forget it, let's live well. Wen Yu gave up resistance.

Conscious chess pieces are always troublesome, but there are always people who willingly make chess pieces, and the chess pieces do as they do, and the little people always have the way of survival of the little people.

"It's never a bad thing to have that experience." Wen Yu muttered.