Chapter 304: Airship Attack

The chariots of the Chinese Empire had two absolutely unique weapons, one was the internal combustion engine and the other was the track system, and without these two vital equipment, the scientists of the Cossack Empire had to replace them with existing techniques, which led to the birth of the Cossack chariot, a strange equipment.

Due to the absence of an internal combustion engine, the Cossacks used steam power, the size of the steam engine was very large, so the height of the Cossack chariot reached a terrifying ten meters, due to the absence of a track system, in order to increase its cross-country ability, the wheels of this chariot were made very large, more than six meters high.

Due to the height of the hull, his armor was naturally weakened, and even the thickest frontal armor was only thirteen millimeters thick, except for rifles and machine guns, I am afraid that any kind of artillery could easily penetrate his armor, provided that it could hit, of course.

The rear of the tall car was completely a steam boiler, which required two people to fill the boiler with coal, and every thirty kilometers it needed to be replenished by coal trucks, but despite this, this large machine, which could move slowly at a speed of ten kilometers per hour, was praised by Alexander III.

At this time, fifteen Cossack chariots lined up in a line, covering the advance of a large number of infantry towards the Yaman army on the opposite side.

The Cossack chariot also had the advantage of being tall, not only because it could cover more infantry, but also because it could mount more weapons.

The standard configuration of the Cossack chariot was a 76-mm infantry gun, two 37-mm short-barreled guns and up to eight machine guns.

Faced with such a huge monster, the Yaman army was directly frightened, and they scattered and fled, and were massacred by the Cossacks who followed.

Seeing the collapse of the troops in front, Lieutenant General Rudolph frowned, and Admiral Cruznan on the side was already a little dumbfounded.

Lieutenant General Rudolph quickly saw the fame, and he immediately ordered: "All artillery, artillery fire covers the forward positions." ”

Just as the Cossack soldiers were triumphantly charging forward, a large number of shells flew towards the position, and the violent and dense explosion tore all the Cossack soldiers involved in the attack to pieces.

Fifteen Cossack chariots were also uncomfortable, they could not withstand the attack of artillery, especially the huge wheels were easily damaged, and under intensive artillery fire, the Cossack chariots were destroyed one after another.

By the time Ilzisky recalled his troops, there were only two Cossack chariots left, and almost 10,000 soldiers had been lost.

This counter-assault of the Cossack army cost the Yaman Empire thousands of people, and no one took advantage of it on both sides, but the military strength of the Yaman Empire was superior, and the Cossack army had lost a lot of soldiers in the previous battle, and this time it lost so many soldiers, Ilzisky knew that he could no longer support it, so he had to order the whole army to retreat at night and retreat to the Bodell River defense line behind.

Although they occupied the city of Desa, the Yamans army could no longer advance, and the Yamans on the other side were afraid that the lone army would be surrounded deeply, so they also stopped, and the two sides confronted each other along the line between the city of Dessa and the Bodell River.

The battle on the Eastern Front was just a pre-dinner appetizer, and the real highlight was the battle on the Western Front against the Nantes Empire. Before the battle, the Yamaman Empire issued a final ultimatum to the Grand Duchy of Serre and the Kingdom of Amterdam, demanding that they surrender immediately or join the Allied bloc, or face the most severe blow.

In the face of the powerful Yaman Di** team, the weak Kingdom of Amterdam announced its surrender, and the Grand Duchy of Ser, which had also been a great power for a while, refused to accept the conditions of the Yaman Empire, and began to actively prepare for war at home, preparing for the attack of the Yaman Empire.

Faced with this situation, the main forces of the Yaman Empire began to assemble on the Western Front, and the Yaman army rampaged through the territory of the Grand Duchy of Serre, aiming directly at the capital of the Grand Duchy of Serre.

The Grand Duchy of Serre's military strength is not weak, he has 150,000 troops equipped with Lebor rifles, and also has nearly 200 artillery pieces of various types, and the army is also very powerful, and the Serre army has built fortresses in the border area.

Archduke Leopold of Serre was confident that he could keep the Yamans out of the country. But they never imagined that the first attack would not come from the ground, but from the air.

Before the war, the Yaman Empire imported twenty "Eagle" airships from the Chinese Empire, these airships were 350 meters long, with a maximum ceiling of 800 meters, double airbags filled with helium, and under the cigar-shaped balloon there was a pod that could carry eight tons, and the rear of the pod was equipped with two 50-horsepower electric propellers, which could allow the airship to travel at a speed of eight kilometers per hour.

After importing twenty airships, the Yaman Empire began to copy such airships in the country with the authorization of the Chinese Empire.

Helium requires a temperature of more than 100 degrees below zero to produce, but the Jarman Empire did not have such a level of craftsmanship and technical equipment.

Since the Jarman Empire was unable to produce helium, these replica airships used hydrogen as balloon filler, which was more dangerous, but because of its greater buoyancy, it could allow the replica airship to carry up to three tons more load.

The attack on the Grand Duchy of Serre was the first of its kind with the addition of up to five machine guns to the airships, which could only be used for reconnaissance and bombing.

The Ser soldiers who were digging trenches suddenly felt a dark shadow blocking the blazing sun, and when they looked up, they saw a group of huge flying objects slowly approaching.

"What's that?" The soldiers pointed to the airship and discussed.

A Serr officer raised his binoculars when the large black cross badge on the balloon came into his sight, which was the military insignia of the Yaman Empire. The officer shouted: "It's the Yamans, shoot fast." ”

Hearing the officer's order, many Serr soldiers raised their rifles in their hands and started shooting, but unfortunately the airship reached a ceiling of 800 meters, which was too high for the Lebor rifle firing from the back, and the bullet could not reach the airship at all, so it lost its kinetic energy and fell one after another.

Seeing the Ser soldiers on the ground firing, the Yaman soldiers on the airship were a little nervous at first, but soon they realized that they could not be harmed at all, and they couldn't help but laugh.

The commander of the airship hoisted the signal flag to start the battle, and all the airships began to move. There were two bombardiers in each airship, and after receiving the order, they tied themselves to the post of the gondola with ropes, and carefully opened the bomb door at the bottom of the pod, and they pushed the round bombs one after another.

At first, they wanted to throw shells in the air, but they found that after the shells were thrown, they kept spinning, and there was no guarantee that the fuse would hit the ground first, and if the fuse did not hit the ground, the shell could not explode.

Later, they saw the mines of the Chinese Empire, the round mines had fuses on all sides, and they would explode no matter how they landed, so the Yamans loaded the mines on the airships, and these bombardiers only needed to pull out the safety when pushing the mines out of the hatch, and these mines turned into aerial mines, and smashed straight at the Sels on the ground.

The mines of the Chinese Empire can blow up and sink battleships, because these mines are full of charges, and the explosion power is very large, and the Yaman army is very clever to wrap a layer of iron armor engraved with grooves on the outside of the mines to increase the fragments, so that once the powerful bombs are put into battle, they burst out with great power, and the Serre army on the ground was blown up with nowhere to hide, and the machine gunners on the airship were used to pick up the crowded places on the ground and shoot desperately, which increased the casualties of the Serre army.

Under the double attack of machine guns and bombs, the Ser army, who had never seen such a monster, was frightened, and they either fled in all directions, or were killed on the spot, and the defense line was completely thrown into disarray.

When the armies of the Yaman Empire marched to the border, they were greeted only by black smoke craters and devastated and undefended positions, and the main force of the Yaman army broke into the territory of the Grand Duchy of Serre without hindrance.

This was the first air battle in the world, which caused an uproar in the world's public opinion, and the governments of various countries remembered that after the arms fair, the reports written by the representatives of various countries did indeed include such an airship bombing.

Research institutions in various countries have received government notices, and a large number of scientific researchers have begun to study the 'Eagle' airship purchased from the Chinese Empire, hoping to carry out the same modification as the Yaman Empire, so that their own airship can become a weapon of war in the air like them.

The modification of the airship is not complicated, and the reloading that has been studied is also varied, and there are all kinds of shapes, and the installation of machine guns is a very common method, and the installation methods are similar, most of them are to open the firing port in the corner of the closed gondola, and then fix the machine gun with a bracket.

At this time, the countries found that they had bought too few airships, so they also followed the example of the Yaman Empire to buy production rights from the Chinese Empire and imitate them in their own countries, and soon various types of hydrogen airships began to fill the sky.

No matter how the airships of various countries are modified and how the imitations are made, anyway, the military superiority of the Yaman Empire over the Grand Duchy of Serre has been established, and the defeat of the Grand Duchy of Serre is already predictable, and it is only a matter of time before the defeat and surrender are made.

Five days later, the mechanized forces of the Yaman Empire surrounded the capital of the Grand Duchy of Serre, and all the resistance of the entire Grand Duchy was forced here, ready to fight a defensive battle to defend the country.