With the clear hum of diesel engines, twelve giant airships that looked like castles in the sky writhed their huge bodies and slowly floated above the fortresses around the fortresses of Liège such as the "Fleiron".

On top of one of the giant shark-sprayed airships, Lieutenant Berg of the Young Air Corps? Walter Doug was holding a telescope and staring down at the ground beneath him. The meandering and wide Maas River resembles a jade belt, and next to it is the majestic fortress of the main city of Liège. The splendid scene of green tapestry and flowers came to an abrupt end in the battlefield beneath him, replaced by endless smoke and fire and dented craters; The grey offensive was held back by the forts on the east bank of the Maas, and the positions were now firmly under the control of the Belgians.

The hatch of the airship's wheelhouse was pushed open, and an adjutant walked in. He saluted Walter Doug and said, "Captain, General Emmisi, commander of the Maas River forces, has just sent a signal asking us to immediately bombard the Belgian fort below. The adjutant said unhurriedly, as if it were all taken for granted. Although with the continuous expansion of the German air forces, the General Staff has created a new air rank to distinguish them; However, just as cavalry and artillery did not have separate services, the new branch of the aviation was still assigned to the traditional army or navy.

"Reply to General Emmisi, and we will start the operation immediately." Looking at the German assault troops below him, who were clearly hindered in their attacks, the urge to blow up these fortresses became stronger in Walt Doug's heart than when he set out. He paused, and then said to the adjutant: "Immediately measure the wind speed, wind direction, and height from the ground, adjust the position of the airship, and use 50kg bombs to find the bombing target first!" ”

A few minutes later. The massive airship began to slowly move its position in the air. In order to allow the free-falling bomb to be able to accurately hit the target after a long period of fall. And until this time. The Belgian troops on the ground have finally come to their senses. Although the Belgians don't know what these terrifying-looking cigars are for, the Iron Cross logo is a clear indication that they belong to the German camp; Well, since it's the enemy's equipment, you can't go wrong with shooting at it! At one moment, the officers and men of the Belgian field troops raised their rifles and shot into the sky, and the crisp sound of gunfire spread throughout the world.

Seeing this scene, the corners of Walter Doug's mouth couldn't help but smile contemptuously. In order to protect against strikes from direct fire from the ground, the normal cruising altitude of the improved "Kirov" bombing airship reached 1200 meters; Not to mention ordinary rifle firepower, even if the Maxim heavy machine gun is modified for anti-aircraft fire, it will not be able to reach this altitude area! Wait until the airship is suspended and stopped. He immediately gave the order to bomb. A black cylinder with a sharp head and a round tail and steady wings suddenly fell from the belly of the airship, and in less than 20 seconds, it collided with the ground with a meteorite roar.

"Boom!" A roar suddenly burst out from the Belgian army's position, and the dazzling light of red purple and gold burst into the sky hundreds of meters high, like a heavenly fire rushing and a volcano erupting. The wind was howling, the air waves were rushing, and when everything calmed down, people found that a deep crater with a radius of more than ten meters appeared in front of the Belgian Fleiron Fortress!

Behind the German position, Emmisi looked at the crater with a shocked face that far surpassed the size of the previous shelling. The shock in my heart is hard to describe in words; The majestic power of the thunderous blow just now is completely better than that of the 283mm heavy train gun! What's more. The bombs fell almost vertically, which meant that they could completely evade the solid vertical protection of the Belgian fortress and pour directly from the tops of the relatively weakly defended fortresses. If the bomb load of these large airships is enough, it is really possible for him to break through these nails tonight and lead his troops to the city of Liège!

"Boom!" Another thrilling red light suddenly exploded, the air waves rolled wildly, and the fire was dazzling. After the correction just now, a subsequent aerial bomb with a loading factor of more than 40% suddenly landed on the dome of the Fleiron fortress, and the violent explosion completely shook the entire fortress. A garrison turret was thrown into the sky tens of meters high in an instant, and thick black smoke billowed out from the huge hole in the dome; The hot flames and poisonous gases raged inside the fortress, engulfing the lives of the defenders who did not have time to escape.

Thunder roared, purple waves swept in, and at the same time, other airships began to bombard the remaining Belgian fortresses. Even the smallest 50kg bomb was an unbearable judgment of the Holy Sword of Zeus for the Belgian defenders; Due to their ultra-high reload factor, these small bombs are as powerful as direct bombardment from battleship-class shells! And when the airship occasionally drops a 250kg bomb, its momentum is even more like a tsunami and a mountain collapse; The red flames rose into the air with dust fragments a mile high, and the German officers and soldiers could still feel the strong shock wave rushing ahead several miles away.

In this heavenly fire and thunderous divine punishment, the Belgian fortress, which was still standing in the fierce attack of the German army, was already trembling under the bomb thunder that fell from the sky. The turret burst into flames, the steel bars shattered, and the solid cast steel armor shattered and collapsed like mud and paper paste, accompanied by a huge explosion and a violent shock wave. At this moment, the Belgian fortress has become a purgatory on earth: the earth and rocks have collapsed, the flames are rushing, and the suffocating hot smoke is pervasive, suffocating all the Belgian fortress troops stationed in it. The little self-confidence that had just been accumulated by repelling the German attack was instantly vanished in this natural disaster-like blow; They fled from the exit in a panic, and every now and then someone was impaled by the debris and fell to the ground, leaving them breathless for a moment.

An hour later, the dense and furious sound of the battlefield like a sea god's heavenly drum gradually returned to calm. Smoke and dust were billowing and there was no normal road surface to be found in the battlefield. Emmisi shook his head, which was still buzzing, and raised his binoculars to look intently, only to see that the once majestic Belgian fortress had now been completely reduced to a ruin of smoke and fire; Crooked cannons and molten steel intertwined, charred and broken corpses lying on their backs. From time to time, the interior of the fortress also shone with the dazzling glare of ammunition explosions, completely destroying and destroying some of the crumbling remnants of the fortifications. In the sky, the giant airships that had been raging for a while still seemed to refuse to leave; They slowly roamed the battlefield for a moment, then flew quickly in the direction of the main city of Liège.

"Give the order to all brigades to gather their forces and be ready for action; An hour later, the whole army immediately attacked Liège! Emmisi put down the barrel of the mirror and said loudly to one of the lieutenants next to him.

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In Liège, Le Mans, the commander of the 3rd Division, was pacing frantically back and forth in the command post like an ant on a hot pot. The loud waves of distant explosions swept through the sky like a tsunami and surged into the city five miles away. Thunder roared, and fire rushed; From afar, it looks like a roaring volcano roaring on the east bank of the Maas River.

Two hours earlier, the fortress complex east of Liège had just repelled a ferocious German attack with all its might. According to the reports sent back to Le Mans by the field troops in the gap of the fort, the Germans suffered more than 2,000 casualties, while their own losses were no more than 300; With the exception of a few inconsequential positions, the core area was impregnable. Le Mans's confidence at that time was as high as if Belgium had 40 divisions and the Germans had only 6 divisions, rather than the other way around. Just when he was full of confidence and was ready to turn Liège into a castle gate that would forever stand on the road of the German attack, this continuous terrorist explosion suddenly came from the front position!

Obviously, this movement could not have been caused by one's own troops; It was no more than 8 inches larger than the largest caliber gun in the fortifications, and this level of power was at least an 11-inch (280 mm) high-explosive shell with a large charge. What frightened Le Mans even more was that the frequency of its explosions was as continuous and rumbling as a majestic war drum; As a rough estimate, there were at least fifty 11-inch or even 16-inch super siege guns participating in this thunderous ensemble!

At this thought, Le Mans felt like he was in a nightmare. To say that the Germans were able to assemble so many super cannons in just a few days, and could quickly follow the assault troops to the front line, Le Mans, who had dealt with the army for most of his life, would definitely not believe it: let alone fifty, even if the Germans could drag five of these heavy guns to the front line, it would be extremely difficult! However, the surging and continuous terrorist explosions in the east were so real and clear, and the clouds of fire that rose from the sky could be seen clearly even in the city of Liège!

Gradually, the earth-shattering roar on the east bank of the Maas River finally stopped, and the last wave of fire dissipated into the air, and the orange smoke was leisurely blown away by the wind. After a while, Le Mans finally breathed a sigh of relief, and there was a sense of prostration in his heart that he had suddenly been liberated under the pressure. His lips twitched, and he was about to give some military order, but an adjutant suddenly walked in in a panic and said to Le Mans in an irrepressibly frightened tone: "General, our fortress complex on the east bank has been completely destroyed!" ”

Le Mans's pupils suddenly dilated, and his face was already full of shock and horror. (To be continued......)