The morning glow is thin and the clouds are flying.

There was a low hum, like the fluttering of bees among flowers, and a huge airship shaped like a cigar jumped out of the sea like a fish, and suddenly emerged from the clouds. It is beige all over, as large as a mountain, and its bow is painted with a hideous and ferocious giant shark paint, which looks particularly tyrannical and terrifying in the sunlight.

The humming sound became louder and louder, and when it reached its peak, it shook the eardrums like a mountain and a tsunami; In the midst of the surging fog, countless airships broke out of the waves one after another from the sea of cascading clouds, dotted in the blue sky like stars and gems. From a distance, there are more than 100 airships of all kinds dotted in the sky; Although they are slightly different in terms of size and color, their wings and belly are all painted with a distinct black and white iron cross!

In one of the giant Kirov airships that resembles a city in the sky, the white-faced young aviation lieutenant Berg? Walter Doug stood in the cockpit, proudly surveying the fast-moving cluster of airships around him. Countless engines roared and roared, like rolling thunder. As far as the eye can see, there are beige hulls and floating islands, cloud-like bodies; From a distance, it looks like the gods in mythology are on patrol, majestic and mighty, looking down on Weiling.

Since the leveling of the fortress of Liège, Walter Doug's right-wing airship unit of the German army has begun its own frenzied bombing campaign. After a few sorties, the Belgian army units, which were poorly trained and even improvised, scattered in fear and fled to the rear. In the battle of the fortress of Namur in southern Belgium, the German airships once again recreated the invincible posture of the battle of Liège: the forts, pillboxes, and trenches painstakingly built by the defenders were all blown into a piece of scorched earth and gravel, and then the German troops who rushed in like a raging wave instantly drowned everything. At present, the Belgian Army, which has six divisions of 110,000 troops, has less than 30,000 remnants left. It is heading west for a rout. Most of the country was in German hands. In this march-like Belgian campaign. The effective bombing of German airships undoubtedly played a decisive role in propulsion.

On 17 May, Walter Doug received an order that his airship unit was suddenly placed under the command of the Crown Prince's Fifth Army and that they should be immediately flown to Trier Air Base in the Rhine Province to stand by. Walter Dogg, who did not dare to slack off, immediately commanded the airship to reach its destination, which in his opinion must have been the prelude to a fierce bombardment by the Germans on the middle battlefield where the French army had assembled heavy troops.

To Walter Doug's astonishment, instead of reloading his giant airship with bombs as he had expected, the ground crew moved out a large number of heavy objects for the ballasting box. For this case. Walter Doug was puzzled. It is important to know that due to the unique flight mechanism of airships that are lighter than air, every kirov must have more than five tons of debris as a cargo for the ball; Only in this way can we ensure that this super cigar will not fly straight into outer space because of its light weight after dropping the bomb. This time, after the weight of the ballast bottom is unloaded, the airship can only use bombs to undertake the ballast task, which will undoubtedly greatly reduce the number of bombs that the airship can throw!

A day later, the mystery that puzzled Walter Doug was finally revealed. An entire company of heavily armed German infantry boarded his airship and filled the vacated compartments; At the same time, Walt Doug also received orders from his superiors. Let him immediately airlift these infantry to the vicinity of Alvi, which was located in the heart of the French army at the front. Seeing that the airship next to him was also a scene of infantry coming in and out, Walt Dog's heart flashed. I finally understood the intentions of my troops.

As the fixed cable dissociated, the air-drained airship began to stagger, and the lack of weights that Walter Doug had feared was now a serious overload of lack of buoyancy. The pilot tried his best to finally make the airship fly smoothly at an altitude of 700 meters. It wasn't until he was in the sky that Walter Doug noticed that he wasn't fighting alone; In the vast sky, there were already countless German airships sprayed with iron crosses that were moving at full speed in the same direction as him. Although they range from the gigantic Kirov, which is more than 200 meters long, to civilian fast mail boats that carry out air transport in peacetime, they are all different in size and model; But Walter Doug could vaguely feel that these airships should be the same as his own car, and their internal cabins were loaded with a large number of heavily armed army infantry!

Steep peaks and hills. With the continuous roar of the engine, Walter Doug's airboat moved forward in a straight line at a top speed of 30 knots, crossing the Changchuan Great Valley and crossing the Reckless Forest. The great advantage of the Air Force in ignoring the terrain was vividly reflected in this troop transportation; These routes, which normally cause a headache for Army troops and require at least two days to trek, can now be reached in just over an hour with the convenience of an airboat! Inside the airship, the German infantrymen, who had ridden this aerial monster for the first time, were so surprised that they stepped out of the bomb bay and gathered near the windows, vying for a bird's-eye view of the European continent. Walter Doug couldn't help but roll his eyes at these robes' unseen behavior, but he completely forgot the even more unbearable shouting when he first flew into the sky.

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"Captain, in less than fifteen minutes, we will arrive at our destination, Alvi." A young man lying on an aerial map sketching an algorithm turned around and reported to Walter Doug.

Walter Doug nodded slightly, "Tell the hitchhikers that they can get ready to land." When they get to the ground, don't forget to collect at least five tons of stones at the same time to balance the empty weight for us. In addition, since this is an airborne landing, the airship will not be able to maintain its balance at the moment of landing, so these air rookies are all returned to the bomb bay and continue to serve as their sardine cans. ”

After a while, the roar of the airship's engine began to slowly decrease, and the height of the entire air fortress began to slowly sink, and Walter Doug in the wheelhouse could clearly see the Qianmo and the stream on the ground. Suddenly, a simple-looking, but large, conspicuous cross sign appeared in the distant wilderness. Walt Doug was overjoyed, and quickly looked at it, and saw that the terrain was quite flat, and it was an ideal landing place for his big guy. The pilot, apparently spotting it, began to turn the bow of the boat, descending in altitude and slowly flying towards the sign.

Long before the main airship sortie, German aviation dropped a small number of airborne troops on the target site. According to the reconnaissance report of the airship before, these teams made marks on the flat open space that had been surveyed in advance, so that the subsequent airship army could quickly find the ideal position for landing. Walt Doug was still worried that these signs would be difficult to find, fearing that he would lose the £100,000 flying fortress by landing in the wrong place, but he was completely relieved to see this. For the rigor and meticulousness of his own army in this war, Walter Doug can no longer express his inner amazement in words. Now he had only one thought in his mind, and that was to be sincerely glad and proud to be a member of the German armed forces!

After a while, the majestic giant airship hovered above the cross mark in a constant deceleration. In the light breeze, the pilot began to manipulate the valve to suck in air into the airship little by little, and the airship, which was already in an overweight state, suddenly began to fall at a uniform speed; Occasional horizontal or vertical offsets were rebalanced by his skilful manipulation. The ground was getting bigger and bigger, and Walt Doug could already see the flowers and trees on the ground clearly. Finally, a loud bang came from below, and the cabin shook, and the entire airship shook several times. Looking at the mountains and rivers in front of him, which were already at eye level, Walter Doug couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.

"Wow!" The hatch opened, and dozens of German soldiers were the first to step off the airship amid the shouts of the officers; After a short time, they brought back all kinds of rocks and gravel, large and small, as compensation for the weight of their departure from the airship. After they had brought back enough sundries to the airship for the ballot, another group of German officers and soldiers jumped out of it and began to search for heavy objects in the surrounding area. The cycle repeated, and a company of German officers and men was quickly unloaded. Seeing this, Walt Doug did not hesitate any longer, and immediately ordered the airship to take off and make a detour back to the base. After him, there are quite a few airships waiting to land. And after completing the transportation mission, he still needs to return to the base to load the bomb again, and on the adjutant's aviation map, there are still three roads and two bridges that need to be blown up by his own airship.

The machinery roared, the giant ship took off, and the brilliant sun shone brightly, staining the beige outer wall of the airship with brilliant light. Through the glass windows in the wings of the cab, Walt Doug clearly saw what was going on the ground. In a radius of several kilometers, more than a dozen airships of different sizes are quietly lying on the ground to unload their cargo. Countless German soldiers walked around the neighborhood like ants, either carrying heavy loads to hold their bins, or leaving the place in formation, each taking up their duties, but there was no sign of chaos. In the boundless sky, a large number of airships are scattered high and low, and they are faintly arranged in a regular grand queue; Once the ground airships had taken off again, they swooped down quickly, releasing the various teams of soldiers they were carrying.

Walter Doug smiled slightly, and commanded the airship to gradually rise into the air, flying quickly towards his starting base. (To be continued......)

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